Option A

Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree in Content Area

EXAMPLE: A person with a college degree in an area like Business (at least 30 semester hours in business classes) and 240 hours of work experience

Requirements for Provisional Certification

• Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
• Thirty (30) semester hours in the content area
• Two hundred forty (240) clock hours of verified work experience in appropriate occupational area

Transition to Standard Certification

1. Provisional CTE Certificate (Option A)
2. Eighteen (18) semester hours in professional knowledge (see Teacher Series)
3. Two years of satisfactory teaching approved by certified administrator or administrator’s designee in a secondary CTE approved classroom during the term of the Arizona Provisional CTE Certificate. Submit Teaching Evaluation Verification form

Option B

Valid non-CTE Arizona Teaching Certificate or an Arizona CTE Teaching Certificate in another content area

EXAMPLE: A person already is a teacher (maybe Science or English) has been successfully evaluated. Must have 3 semester hours of a CTE methods class or a class in the area they plan to teach in (agriculture) and 240 hours of experience in the related field they plan to teach

Requirements for Provisional Certification

• Valid Arizona Provisional or Standard Teaching Certificate
• Three (3) semester hours in CTE Methods or content in appropriate occupational area
• One year most recent teacher evaluation by a certificated administrator or administrator’ designee in in a PreK-12 school setting and issued during the term of the Arizona teaching certificate exhibiting satisfactory performance in the classroom
• Two hundred forty (240) clock hours of verified work experience in appropriate occupational area

Transition to Standard Certification

1. Provisional CTE Certificate (Option B)
2. Twelve (12) semester hours in professional knowledge courses
   Courses must include: Nine (9) semester hours in the subject knowledge for area of certification and three (3) semester hours in professional knowledge (See Teacher Series)
3. Additional 240 clock hours of verified work experience (may have been accumulated before obtaining Provisional Certificate) for a total of 480 clock hours
4. Two years of satisfactory teaching approved by certified administrator or administrator’s designee in a secondary CTE appropriate area classroom during the term of the Arizona Provisional CTE Certificate. Submit Teaching Evaluation Verification form

Option C

Business and Industry Professional

EXAMPLE: A person has 6000 clock hours of verified professional experience in the field in which they plan to teach

Requirements for Provisional Certification

• Six thousand (6,000) clock hours of verified work experience in the appropriate occupational area

Transition to Standard Certification

1. Provisional CTE certificate (Option C)
2. Fifteen (15) semester hours of courses in professional knowledge (See Teacher Series for courses)
3. Two years of satisfactory teaching approved by certified administrator or administrator’s designee in a secondary CTE approved classroom during the term of the Arizona Provisional CTE Certificate. Submit Teaching Evaluation Verification form

Option D

Valid Teaching Certificate in CTE from another state

EXAMPLE: A person comes from another state and is certified to teach CTE in that state

Requirements for Provisional Certification

• A valid teaching certificate in career and technical education from another state

Transition to Standard Certification

1. Provisional CTE Certificate (Option D)

Option E

Bachelor’s Degree in Content Specific Education Preparation Program

EXAMPLE: A person who completes an Education program specific to their career area such as an Agriculture Teacher preparation program at a university

Requirements for Provisional Certification

• A Bachelor’s or more advanced degree in a content specific teacher preparation program
• Two hundred forty (240) clock hours of verified work experience in the appropriate occupational area

Transition to Standard Certification

1. Provisional CTE Certificate (Option E)
2. Eighteen (18) semester hours in professional knowledge (See Teacher Series for courses). Hours may be obtained prior to issuance of the Provisional CTE K-12 Certificate
3. Two years of satisfactory teaching approved by certified administrator or administrator’s designee in a secondary CTE approved classroom during the term of the Arizona Provisional CTE Certificate. Submit Teaching Evaluation Verification form

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