PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Professional Development Plan
The State of
National
Board Certification
National
Board Certification concentrates on education reform in the classroom—where
teaching and learning takes place. National Board Certification is a
demonstration of a teacher’s practice as measured against high and rigorous
standards.
National
Board licensing is valid for a period of ten years; however, it does not replace
state licensing. There is an
application procedure that requires payment of $2,300 of which the State of
As a
department head, encourage your teachers to seek national certification.
A list of national board certified teachers in business technology is
available on the business technology website, http://bte.dadeschools.net.
State
Certification
You may
have teachers ask you about state certification requirements.
If so, direct them to the following website for information on
information about teacher certification requirements for Business Education, as
per Administrative
Rule 6A-4: http://www.fldoe.org/edcert/rules/6A-4-056.asp.
State
certification application forms, application status, steps to certification and
adding an endorsement to a teaching certificate can be found at the following
website: http://fldoe.org/edcert.
Professional Organization |
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National Business Education Association (NBEA) |
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Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) |
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Dade Association of Vocational, Adult, Career, and Community Education (DAVACCE) |
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Dade |
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Delta Pi Epsilon |
FORMS
NBEA Membership form
– go to www.nbea.org
and follow link.
FBTEA Membership form - http://www.fbtea.org/membershipformnew.doc.
ACTE Membership form - https://www.acteonline.org/registration/membership_reg/acte_membership.cfm
FACTE Membership form - http://www.facte.org/docs/membership_form.pdf
DAVACCE Membership form – pdf
format
DCBTEA Membership form - http://bte.dadeschools.net/Documents/DCBTEA%20Membership%20Application.doc
DPE Membership form - http://www.dpe.org/core/membershipForm.htm
Involvement
in school activities and committees – it is extremely important that as a department head that you
get involved with school committees that affect decisions made in your school.
Volunteer to assist in planning activities and committees to enable other
teachers and administrators to learn about the business technology programs.
Staff
Development Activities – each year a survey is sent via email to all business
teachers to see what workshops and inservice activities that they want.
From the survey the workshops offered during the year are scheduled and
teachers have the opportunity to sign up for one of them on the form on the BTE
web site. Workshops are offered at
the ITS