Preparing, licensing, and certifying postsecondary career and technical educators

Research demonstrates that occupations in the career and technical education (CTE) area are experiencing high growth in the United States of America (USA). Consequently, education and training for these occupations is in demand thus creating a growing need for qualified instructors at the community and technical college level. In this paper, the author attempts to synthesise the available literature on preparing, licensing, and certifying postsecondary CTE teachers in the USA. A further aim is to discuss the various methods that could be used for this purpose. The findings reveal that the majority of the literature refers to CTE in secondary schools and that there is a lack of empirical evidence to guide CTE administrators, college faculty, and policy makers in this area.

This paper is one of a collection prepared for the 2002 National Career and Technical Teacher Education Institute Conference, ‘A call for renaissance in career and technical teacher education’, held in Scottsdale, Arizona from February 6-9, 2002. The papers are indexed from TD/TNC 69.501 to TD/TNC 69.506.

Research demonstrates that occupations in the career and technical education (CTE) area are experiencing high growth in the United States of America (USA). Consequently, education and training for these occupations is in demand thus creating a growing need for qualified instructors at the community and technical college level. In this paper, the author attempts to synthesise the available literature on preparing, licensing, and certifying postsecondary CTE teachers in the USA. A further aim is to discuss the various methods that could be used for this purpose. The findings reveal that ...  [+] Show more