PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: August 23, 2002.
Purpose: This amendment clarifies that, because two programs have now been approved through which candidates can seek certification based on business and industry work experience, candidates must complete an approved program in order to obtain certification.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 180-77-041.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 28A.410.010.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 02-14-106 on July 2, 2002.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
Pilot Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 0,
Repealed 0;
or Other Alternative Rule Making:
New 0,
Amended 1,
Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule:
Thirty-one days after filing.
August 26, 2002
Larry Davis
Executive Director
OTS-5650.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 02-04-018, filed 1/24/02,
effective 2/24/02)
WAC 180-77-041
Requirements for candidates seeking career
and technical education certification on the basis of business
and industry work experience.
Candidates for certification who
have not completed approved programs set forth in WAC 180-82-322
shall complete the following requirements in addition to those
set forth in WAC 180-79A-150 (1) and (2) and 180-79A-155 (1) and
(2).
(1) Initial.
(a) Candidates for the initial certificate shall provide documentation of three years (six thousand hours) of paid occupational experience in the specific career and technical education subcategory for which certification is sought. One year (two thousand hours) must be within the past six years. If all or part of the two thousand hours is more than six years old, candidates must complete an additional three hundred hours of recent (occurring in the last two years) occupational experience.
(b) Candidates for the initial certificate shall complete a state board of education approved program under WAC 180-77A-029 in which they demonstrate competence in the general standards for all career and technical education teacher certificate candidates pursuant to WAC 180-77A-165, which include but are not limited to knowledge and skills in the following areas:
(i) General and specific safety;
(ii) Career and technical education teaching methods;
(iii) Occupational analysis;
(iv) Course organization and curriculum design;
(v) Philosophy of vocational education;
(vi) Personal student development and leadership techniques.
(c) ((Provided, until such time as two or more programs are
approved by the SBE under WAC 180-77A-029, candidates shall
complete a minimum of twenty-five quarter hours or two hundred
fifty hours of career and technical education educator training
and/or technical education/upgrading of which a minimum of ten
quarter hours or one hundred clock hours of competency-based
course work must be in the above areas.
(d))) Candidates for the initial certificate shall also demonstrate knowledge and skills in the following areas:
(i) School law;
(ii) Issues related to abuse as specified in WAC 180-77A-165(7).
(((e))) (d) In addition, candidates for initial
certification in diversified occupations or coordinator of work
based learning shall demonstrate competency in knowledge and
skills described in WAC 180-77A-180.
(2) Initial renewal. Candidates for renewal of the initial certificate must complete three quarter hours of credit or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training in the subject matter certified to teach since the initial certificate was issued or renewed.
(3) Continuing.
(a) Candidates for the continuing certificate shall have in addition to the requirements for the initial certificate at least nine quarter hours or ninety clock hours of career and technical education educator training in the career and technical education subject matter to be certified completed subsequent to the issuance of the initial certificate.
(b) Candidates for the continuing certificate shall provide as a condition for the issuance of a continuing certificate documentation of two years of teaching/coordination in the career and technical education subject matter certified to teach with an authorized employer -- i.e., school district(s) or skills center(s).
(4) Continuing certificate renewal.
(a) Candidates for renewal of the continuing certificate shall complete since the previous continuing certificate was issued one of the following:
(i) Six quarter hours or sixty clock hours of career and technical education educator training;
(ii) Three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training and three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of technical education/upgrading;
(iii) Three quarter hours or thirty clock hours of career and technical education educator training and three hundred hours of occupational experience.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010 and 28A.305.130 (1) through (4). 02-04-018, § 180-77-041, filed 1/24/02, effective 2/24/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.305.130 (1) and (2), 28A.410.010. 00-18-064, § 180-77-041, filed 9/1/00, effective 10/2/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 28A.410.010. 98-01-026, § 180-77-041, filed 12/8/97, effective 1/8/98; 97-04-085, § 180-77-041, filed 2/5/97, effective 3/8/97; 95-12-056, § 180-77-041, filed 6/2/95, effective 7/3/95.]