Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 505 - PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS COMMISSION › Chapter 505-3 - EDUCATOR PREPARATION RULES › Rule 505-3-.84 - Career Technical Instruction (CTI) Endorsement Program

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27,
			 2024
(1)
Purpose.
This rule states field-specific standards for approving
			 endorsement programs that prepare individuals to coordinate and teach Career
			 Technical Instruction programs in grades 6-12 and supplements requirements in
			 Rule 505-3-.01,
			 REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR APPROVING EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROVIDERS AND
			 EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS.
(2)
In-Field Statement
. Educators seeking to add the Career Technical
			 Instruction (CTI) Endorsement must be certified in Special Education.
			 Completers of the Career Technical Instruction Endorsement are qualified to
			 coordinate and provide Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE)
			 instruction to students in grades 6-12 identified as having special educational
			 needs.
(3)
Requirements.
(a) A GaPSC
			 approved professional educator preparation provider may seek state approval to
			 offer this field as either a stand-alone endorsement program to candidates who
			 hold Special Education certification or as an endorsement program embedded in a
			 GaPSC-approved initial preparation Special Education program or an advanced
			 (degree-only) preparation program. In addition to meeting all applicable
			 approval requirements and standards, embedded endorsement programs must meet
			 requirements specified in paragraph (e) 3. (ix) of GaPSC educator preparation
			 rule 505-3-.01,
			 REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR APPROVING EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROVIDERS AND
			 EDUCATOR PREPARATION PROGRAMS.
(b)
			 To receive approval, a GaPSC-approved educator preparation provider shall offer
			 a preparation program described in program planning forms, catalogs, and
			 syllabi, addressing the following standards:
1. The program shall prepare candidates who
			 have knowledge of youth with disabilities, Georgia's career technical education
			 programs, development and implementation of the IEP, transition of students
			 from school to life and work, and opportunities for post-secondary education
			 and/or employment;
2. The program
			 shall prepare candidates who know principles of career development,
			 employability and retention, and implement techniques for assisting students
			 and their parents in making educational and occupational choices;
3. The program shall prepare candidates who
			 can plan curriculum and provide necessary accommodations or modifications,
			 implement instructional techniques, accommodate students' learning styles
			 and/or learning disabilities, assess student progress, and garner community
			 based support for Georgia's career technical programs;
4. The program shall require demonstrated
			 competence in the promotion, organization, instruction, budget, and
			 coordination required to sustain a CTI program at the local level;
5. The program shall require demonstrated
			 competence in the staffing process, due process, career technical placement,
			 job placement, screening selection, guidance, assessment and counseling of
			 students with disabilities enrolled in secondary career and technical
			 programs;
6. The program shall
			 require demonstrated competence in the knowledge of federal and state laws and
			 regulations governing the assurances of programs serving students in special
			 education;
7. The program shall
			 require demonstrated competence to assure that each student will be guided in
			 the development of a positive self-image, job entrance and retention skills,
			 self-motivation, life coping skills, and the tools to make sound
			 decisions;
8. The program shall
			 require demonstrated competence in the mastery of technical skills, problem
			 solving, and understanding subject matter thereby raising student expectations
			 as much as possible, and intervening with CTI services to accelerate success in
			 career and technical courses;
9.
			 The program shall require demonstrated competence in the ability to utilize the
			 community, business, industry, local and state support agencies, family, and
			 school to assume the realistic opportunity to complete high school and
			 transition to work and/or post-secondary education;
10. The program shall require demonstrated
			 competence in the knowledge of remedial techniques; CTI enrichment camp;
			 national, state, and local intervention services; advisory committees;
			 instructional equipment; tools; safety procedures; facilities; life skills; and
			 the documentation and progress of individual special education students
			 enrolled in career and technical courses;
11. The program shall require demonstrated
			 competence in the knowledge of the technical workplace, including various
			 work-based learning options;
12.
			 The program shall require demonstrated competence in an understanding of
			 poverty, economically disadvantaged, unsupportive families, social and economic
			 barriers, and other problems that CTI students face in a technical
			 society;
13. The program shall
			 require demonstrated competence in the knowledge of benchmarks for evaluating
			 CTI students;
14. The program shall
			 require demonstrated competence in the knowledge of annual evaluation of goals,
			 objectives, delivery, and outcomes for the local CTI program;
15. The program shall require demonstrated
			 competence in the use of available technology, particularly multimedia, for
			 children with special needs, including the application of computer hardware and
			 software and techniques for evaluating software for instruction; and
16. The program shall require supervised
			 school/field-based internship in conducting a CTI program.