Temple's Career & Technical Education program is designed to prepare students who expect to teach career and technical education subjects in grades K-12. Candidates must have an undergraduate or a graduate degree in a business-related area in order to apply to the program. Subject area content (occupational competency assessment credit for industry experience) and professional education content are combined with general education content (university curriculum) in order to provide the student with professional teacher training in their field of specialization. The curriculum aims to combine these elements in such proportions as to give students a balanced perspective of the relation that career and technical education bears to education as a whole.

This non-degree graduate program meets the requirements for the Pennsylvania Department of Education instructional certificate in either Business, Computer, and Information Technology K-12 or Marketing (Distributive) Education K-12.  A master's degree is not awarded upon completion of this non-degree program.  You will complete only the coursework and in-service necessary to meet the Pennsylvania Department of Education certification requirements for the associated teacher certification. 

Requirements for Career & Technical Education Graduate Non-degree Program as of Fall 2020

Number of Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 27

Student Teaching

Supervised teaching is required for Instructional Level I certification.  

Additional REquirements for certification

To be eligible for certification, students must successfully complete the Intermediate Performance Assessment (IPA), Senior Performance Assessment (SPA), and a Professional Education Portfolio (PEP) review, as well as attain passing scores on all required examinations as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE).  All students must pass Praxis 5511 prior to being admitted to the program. Students in the BCITE program must pass Praxis 5101. Students in the Marketing Ed program only need to pass Praxis 5561. Candidates who have completed all coursework, assessments, and examination requirements must complete an application to PDE to be evaluated for a recommendation for certification by Temple University.  For more information, visit PDE's Career and Technical Certification.