Trade and Industrial Education Graduate Concentration and Activities



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How To Enroll in the Concentration and Online Courses
Technology Education teachers complete instructions on how to enroll for online courses.
Trade & Industrial Ed teachers complete instructions on how to enroll for online courses.
Training & Development Industry trainers complete instructions on how to enroll.
To enroll in this concentration, you must get admitted to the University. Visit the School of Graduate Study's Web site and download the application from the Forms link. You will need to be admitted to the University first before registering for classes. If you do not want to get a degree or declare a major, then you will want to apply for admission as a Post Baccalaureate Student, PBS. The application is also available at the Center for Distance Learning's Web site.

Once you have been admitted to the University, then you should request your Personal Identification Number, PIN, from Dr. Childress after he has advised you on what courses to take. This happens during Early and Late Advisement. Once you enroll for courses, you will be billed for your courses. If you only make a partial payment of your tuition because of financial aide, be sure to get your bill validated at the Book Keeping window in the first floor of Dowdy Hall. If you only want to take online courses, you should visit the Center for Distance Learning, download their Course Agreement form, fax it to them, and make arrangements for paying your tuition.
Be sure to abide by the University deadlines. They can be found on the University calendar.

The Trade and Industrial Education, Teaching graduate concentration prepares students for teaching certain trade and industrial education courses in the public schools. Trade and industrial education is a specific service area of career and technical education that trains public school students for careers in trades like printing, drafting, building trades, and machining. Some majors teach in industry as trainers.

Teaching salaries have become more competitive and offer valuable fring benefits such as 100% of the employee's retirement. Teaching career and technical education is a fun and rewarding career. Many majors go into industry after graduation and experience great success as trainers.

If you have a bacelor's degree and a teaching license, then the graduate program can help you get your master's degree.

If you are currently teaching Trade and Industrial Education but are working under a provisional certification or are a "lateral entry" teacher, then the graduate program will help you get that teaching license and then a master's degree. 

 

To ask specific questions email Dr. Childress, Graduate, by clicking here.

Paradigm for Master of Science for Technology Education:
Trade & Industrial Education, Teaching Concentration 

*Products of Teaching Portfolio:
The Products of Teaching Portfolio must be developed and maintained by all graduate students in this degree program.
Click here to download the rubric that is used to judge the portfolio. Click here to see how to develop the portfolio. The development and maintenance of the portfolio is a requirement in most TECH and CUIN courses. Most of your work that you do in your classrooms, through action research, and in your courses will be included. Any work that provides evidence of your growth, knowledge, skills, dispositions, and that helps you prepare for national board certification should be included in the portfolio. Be sure to study the portfolio rubric and get your portfolio established immediately. It can be both a hardcopy and electronic compilation of your work and reflections.

Professional Education Courses:

CUIN 619 Learning Theories                                                                                            3 sh
CUIN 721 Advanced Methods                                                                                         3 sh
CUIN 743 or CUIN 766 Foundations or Instr. Tech. or Distance Ed.                                    3 sh
CUIN 729 Diversity Issues in Public Schools                                                                     3 sh
                                                                                                                        Sub total   12 sh

Required courses in Trade and  Industrial Education for Thesis Option:

TECH 672 Curriculum Development in Technological Education                                       3 sh
TECH 762 Evaluation of Technological Education Programs                                             3 sh
TECH 767 Research and Literature in Technological Education                                         3 sh
TECH 769 Thesis Research                                                                                             3 sh
TECH 768 Technological Seminar                                                                                   3 sh
TECH 788 Comprehensive Final Exam                                                                            0 sh
                                                                                                                        Sub total   15 sh

Required courses in Trade and Industrial Education for Non- Thesis Option:

TECH 672 Curriculum Development in Technological Education                                       3 sh
TECH 762 Evaluation of Technological Education Programs                                             3 sh
TECH 767 Research and Literature in Technological Education                                         3 sh
TECH 717/718 Special Problems I/II                                                                               3 sh
TECH 768 Technological Seminar                                                                                   3 sh
**TECH 788 Comprehensive Final Exam                                                                          0 sh
                                                                                                                        Sub total   15 sh

 

Specialized courses in Trade and Industrial Education:
 (Select 12 semester hours from the one of the following options. 
  Each course in the list is 3 semester hours.)

GCS 601 Advanced Flexography Methods
GCS 610 Internship in Industry I
GCS 611 Internship in Industry II
GCS 616 Electronic Imaging and Graphic Communication
GCS 630 Multimedia and Videography
GCS 631 Advanced Computer Aided Design 
GCS 632 Graphic Animation
GCS 633 Advanced Machine Design and Drafting
GCS 634 Advanced Multimedia and Videography
GCS 635 Advanced Principles of Graphic Communications Technology
GCS 636 Electronic Imaging and Distance Learning
GCS 644 Advanced Architectural Drafting and Design
GCS 719 Seminar in Computer Aided Drafting and Design
GCS 731 Advanced Graphic Techniques
TECH 660 Career Development and Work-based Learning
TECH 661 Workforce Development Program Planning and Management
TECH 663 History and Philosophy of Technological Education
TECH 664 Occupational Exploration for Middle Grades
TECH 665 Middle Grades Industrial Laboratory
TECH 669 Safety in the Instructional Environment of Technological Education
TECH 670 Introduction to Workplace Training and Development
TECH 671 Methods and Techniques of Workplace Training and Development
TECH 682 Computer Applications for Education and Industrial Training
TECH 717 Special Problems I
TECH 718 special Problems II
CUIN 605 Concepts in Career Education
                                                                                                                TOTAL         39

*  All majors must pass a Products of Teaching portfolio due the last full month of the semester in which you graduate. TECH 717 or 718 helps the student establish the portfolio.

** It is the student’s responsibility to enroll in TECH 788, Comprehensive Final Exam for the semester in which he or she intends to graduate.

·   All students must be qualified for a Class A, continuing teaching license in order to be admitted to the master’s program; does not apply to Training.

·   It is the student’s responsibility to APPLY FOR GRADUATION through the School of Graduate Studies before the deadline posted on the University Calendar in the semester in which he or she intends to graduate.

·   Pass Praxis II, Test 0050 if a Technology Education, Teaching major. Not required for T&I or Training

·   You must possess or qualify for the Class A teaching license in order to be admitted to and graduate from the master’s program in Technology Education, Teaching or in Trade & Industrial Education, Teaching. Not required from Training and Development for Industry.

·   You must get admitted to Teacher Education after your first 9 semester hours.

Note:  GCS 667 Independent Studies in Technological Education I and GCS 668 Independent
Studies in Technological

Education II may be substituted for selected courses with consent of advisor.

To ask specific questions of Dr. Childress, Graduate, email him by clicking here.

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Last Update: 03/20/03