Workforce Education, Leadership, & Social Foundations
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WORKFORCE EDUCATION
Preparation Academy for Career and Technical Educators (PACTE)
The Preparation Academy for Career and Technical Educators (PACTE) is a new teacher institute, designed to train, and retain highly skilled mid-career professionals, who seek to enter into the career and technical education teaching profession and have been employed by a local school district. This program is designed for all certification areas in CTE: Agriculture Education, Business Education, Family and Consumer Science, Healthcare Sciences, Marketing Education, Technology Education, and Trade and Industrial Education.
This program includes an intensive summer experience, monthly induction seminars focused on continued professional development, school-based mentoring, on-line support, as well as coaching and mentoring support through a supervised year-long teaching internship.
PACTE Summer Experience
Under the direction of the PACTE staff and faculty from the Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations at UGA, the program begins with an intensive two and one-half week summer program usually beginning in July. During this time, participants meet for extended periods of time daily, including some evenings. During this summer program, participants are assigned to smaller cohort groups in their respective certifications disciplines. Master teachers from all CTE disciplines, state supervisory personnel, and college/university faculty members work with program participants during this experience.
The curriculum and training focuses on the essential skills needed by beginning career and technical educators. It is designed to orient the participants to the profession of career and technical education, build a strong sense of shared purpose, and provide the knowledge and skills critical to effectively perform duties of a career and technical teacher when the school year begins. This experience also focuses topics including adolescents and young adults as learners, planning for teaching, managing classrooms/laboratories for effective teaching and learning, curriculum, assessing student learning, utilizing student test data to improve achievement, strategies for helping all students succeed, understanding of state and local contexts for public education, and parental involvement.
Interactive multimedia, simulations, case studies, peer coaching, peer teaching, cooperative learning, contextual teaching and learning, discussion, and other small groups and individual activities are utilized in the delivery of the curriculum. Throughout the summer experience the professional growth of all program participants is evaluated using authentic assessment strategies.
Participants successfully completing the PACTE summer experience earn 6 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate academic credits through the University of Georgia (it is the responsibility of each individual participant to meet the entrance requirements of the institution). A participant may earn the equivalent Professional Learning Units (PLUs) in lieu of undergraduate or graduate academic credit.
PACTE Induction SeminarsUpon successful completion of the summer experience, participants report to the pubic school where they have been employed. Monthly induction seminars are conducted throughout the school year to provide continued professional learning and development opportunities. Dates are announced as planning is completed.
The monthly induction seminars focus on extending the professional knowledge and skills of program participants and helping participants cope with the realities of today’s classroom.. Master teachers and faculty utilized in the delivery of the summer experience conduct the seminars focused on coping with realities of today=s classroom. Consultants may be employed to conduct content-specific seminars. Induction seminar topics include curriculum issues, using technology in the instructional program, differentiating instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners, solving problems in classroom management, communicating with students, parents, and colleges, identifying and unitizing community resources, and reflective practice. Each participant completes a teaching portfolio as part of the induction seminars and teaching internship.
PACTE Internship
Each Participant works under the supervision of a faculty member from the Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations during a year long teaching internship. On-site visitation is conducted for coaching and mentoring each participant in the early stages of their professional growth as a career and technical educator in Georgia.
Participants observe and are observed by other teachers. At least twice each semester (fall and spring), program participants are expected to provide short videotapes of teaching episodes in their classrooms. These tapes are used to assess the professional growth and needs of the participants. Each participant completes a teaching portfolio as part of the teaching internship and induction seminars.
Participants successfully completing the induction seminars, teaching internship requirements, and teaching portfolio receive 12 semester hours of undergraduate or graduate academic credit (6 semester hours for the fall semester, 6 semester hours for the spring semester) through the University of Georgia (It is the responsibility of each individual participant to meet the entrance requirements of the institution). A participant may earn the equivalent Professional Learning Units (PLUs) in lieu of undergraduate or graduate academic credit.
Career and Technical Education Programs in Georgia Public Schools
Preparing young people in Georgia to participate successfully in our economy is a critical challenge facing career and technical educators today. Secondary education must equip students with a broad range of skills to enable them to succeed in their future careers. Student must acquire a sophisticated grasp of technology and its applications in the real world. They must learn to communicate effectively and work well with people of diverse backgrounds and talents. They must develop the ability to master new skills and find creative solutions to problems. And perhaps most importantly, they must learn to continue learning in postsecondary education, in their careers, and throughout life. The following secondary education career and technical programs are designed to accomplish these goals.
Agriculture Education. The purpose of Agriculture Education is to prepare and support students for careers in agriculture; build awareness and develop leadership for the food, fiber and natural resource system. Secondary education agriculture courses include: Agricultural Business Management, Agricultural Mechanics, Agricultural Production, Agri-science, Environmental Horticulture, and Forestry and Natural Resources.
Business Education. The purpose of Business Education is to provide instruction that helps students develop business, economic, and computer literacy. Business education courses offered on the secondary level include: Computer Programming, Computer Technology, Keyboarding, Administrative Systems, Accounting, Business Law, Business Economics, and related subjects.
Family and Consumer Sciences. The purpose of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) is to enable males and females to balance the roles and responsibilities within the home, the family, and the workplace. The secondary education FACS program includes courses in four curriculum areas: Foods and Nutrition, Individual and Family Development, Textiles and Apparel, and Housing and Management.
Health Occupations Education. The purpose of Health Occupations programs at the secondary education level is to provide students with competencies to facilitate a transition to health and medical related entry-level careers and post secondary education. A series of interrelated health occupation courses, as well as clinical experiences are provided in high school programs.
Marketing Education. The purpose of Marketing Education is to develop knowledge and skills in the major occupational areas within marketing, to assist in the improvement of marketing techniques, and to build understanding of the wide range of social and economic responsibilities that accompany the right to engage in marketing in a free enterprise system. Marketing courses offered at the secondary education level include: Fundamentals of Marketing, Advanced Marketing Technology, Fashion Marketing, Small Business Ownership and related subjects.
Technology Education. The purpose of Technology Education is to develop technological literacy as part of all students' fundamental education through an activity-based study of past, present and future technological systems, their resources, processes, and impact on society. Technology education courses offered at the high school and middle school level include: Introduction to Technology, Materials and Processes Technology, Manufacturing Technology, Communication Technology, Construction Technology, Drafting Technology, Energy and Power Technology, Graphic Arts Technology and Electronics Communication Technology.
Trade and Industrial Education. The purpose of Trade and Industrial Education is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for successful entry-level employment or further education. Secondary education trade and industrial courses include: Automotive Service Technology, Graphic Arts Technology, Metals Technology, Drafting and Design Technology, Construction Technology, Electronics Technology, Auto Body Repairs, Law Enforcement, Integrated Manufacturing Technology, and Mass Media.
Georgia Professional Standards Commission Teacher Certification Requirements
All individuals recommended for initial teacher certification in Georgia must satisfy certain special Georgia requirements, in addition to those required for certification in a specialty area of Career and Technical Education. These requirements are:
GACE Basic Skills Assessment.
Recency of Study/Experience. An individual applying for initial teacher certification must verify recent study or experience within five years preceding the date of application.
Grade Point Average (GPA). An individual must have an overall GPA of 2.50 on all course work attempted.
Special Education. An individual shall complete coursework, approved by the PSC, in the identification and education of children who have special education needs.
For details about the Georgia Assessment for the Certification of Teachers, see GACE.
For application procedures, see Graduate Programs.
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