Indiana Occupational Specialist Teacher Licensing
2008/09 Academic
Year
Page updated on June 10, 2008
Please note that the project proposal is still tentative and information for the project beginning August 2009 is still pending approval. Information will be posted in the near future. The first required remote site class will tentatively be on Monday, August 25. One site may meet on a different day that week, the new date will be posted here if confirmed for a different day.
Registration is now open for the 2008-09 academic year.
08/09 Registration Form - http://scotton.iweb.bsu.edu/wsfiles/OSIReg0809.doc
Note: Forms and information pertaining to last years project (2007/08) are available for a limited time at the bottom of this page.
SPECIAL NOTICE: All candidates should be aware of the CPR/First Aid requirements for all teacher licenses. It will be necessary for all OSI applicants to get this training prior to the license being issued. The criminal background check is also required before receiving an OSI license.
Note that some past information and mentor reporting forms have been moved to the bottom of this page.
The first two
classes for 2008/09 will be live meetings and will meet tentatively Monday,
August 25th and September 8th. They will tentatively meet from 5 to 8 pm
except for the northern site (Valparaiso) may will meet from 5:30 to 8:30 (note
that the starting time for the northern site is not yet confirmed).
Full year calendar for 2008/09 will be linked to this page as soon as confirmed.
OSI teachers, be sure to review the calendar at the link above and make arrangements to be available for the remote site sessions. Also note that since the class is asynchronous, no adjustments will be made for specific school vacation periods since these vary in different regions. Since internet access is fairly universal, it is possible to access classes when away from home with a laptops or through other computers with internet access available to the public (such as libraries and some hotels or other businesses). Nearly all hotels offer high-speed internet service to guests, some free and some for $10 to $12 per 24 hours access; note that some charge in the rooms but offer free service in the lobby). Broadband access is highly advised (DSL, Cable, T-1, satellite, etc.), many fools used operate very slowly when a 56k dial modem is used. Note that most schools have high-speed access.
The conversion to the Workplace Specialist I license pattern has been postponed. The current anticipated date for the new license rules is January 2009. It appears fairly certain this will occur, but it will not have a direct impact on candidates for the 2008/09 year unless they do not complete the training during that year.
See Division of Professional Standards and the OS Licensing Information page for additional information regarding OS licensing.
Registration for the 2008/09 will tentatively open on June 11. Registration forms will be posted on this after June 11th if registration is confirmed by that date. Registration forms will tentatively be distributed at the IACTED conference in Brown County on June 11th.
Project coordinator to be announced June 11th.
Contact information for the project coordinator will be posted here once confirmed. All primary documentation will be sent to the project coordinator during 2008/09 and not Dr. Cotton.
Overview for 2008/09
Registration for 2008/09 will tentatively begin approximately during the second week of June 2008.
Directors Important Note: If your email address has changed in the last two years, if you have other staff who should be on the director's listserv for general OSI announcements, or if you are a new director; please send the email and other contact information to the project coordinator once announced with a request to have the listserve revised to include the new information.
Initial training sites will be posted as soon as confirmed . Site assignments will be posted as each candidate is confirmed for a particular site.
IMPORTANT: No one missing both of the first two live (remote) sessions (which are required) will be permitted to participate in this year's training project. Mid-year hires will be required to begin the training in 2009-10 school year.
PLEASE NOTE: Electronic course accounts cannot be established without teacher names, identification numbers, and e-mail addresses. Please be sure all of the information is submitted on the registration form well in advance of the first class. It takes several days to establish new accounts, so do not wait until the last minute to send this information.
Note that the information below is proposed and not finalized.
There are the equivalent of 14 three hour
sessions as described below plus one will be 4 to 4 1/2 hour session for the TABE.
Nine sessions will be conducted online.
Five, including the TABE, will required attendance as the assigned remote sites.
One session will be microteaching for which each teacher will
record
themselves teaching a lesson on an acceptable audio-video format.
The CTE director will be responsible for
three additional hours of training (to be documented by the director by
mid-September).
The site assignments will tentatively be according to geography and
class capacity.
All participants must have access to a computer with internet access and an e-mail account to register for the training. It is preferred that all participants have access to Microsoft Office to reduce potential communication difficulties. Word, PowerPoint, Photo Editor are software packages that are utilized in the content delivery for this training project. There are a wide variety of software packages in use, with MS products at the prevailing package. Use of alternative programs often create communication difficulties in online communications.
In some cases, firewalls must be bypassed for online communication if it is live. This years project will not use live sessions unless by special arrangement, but teachers may request live communication. In this case, if the teachers are working from a school computer, the teacher may have to consult with the school's webmaster to achieve this bypass. Teachers should make sure they will have access to a broadband service (service other than phone dial-up modem) at least part-time because the discussion forums used for all activities are very cumbersome and slow when using a dial-up modem.
Every effort will be made to minimize the travel distance for each teacher. Moving to online delivery for most of the sessions is reducing the number of times the teachers must travel to a remote by nine trips. Some teachers, however, due to limitations of the number of computers at a single site, may not be able to attend the closest or most convenient site. Even in this case, travel will be dramatically reduced over the alternative instructional delivery methods.
Excerpts from a copy of the administrator's handbook for the Occupational Specialists license program is available at: http://scotton.iweb.bsu.edu/Tutorials/AdManual.pdf Please note that this manual does not apply to the Workplace Specialist license, but may be a useful helpful tool to enhance the mentoring process.
This is a very large file. On some slower connections it may take some time for this file to load. Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader is required to read this file. Note that the reader is available for free.
Please note that this is the last year that any of the content from this manual will apply. Special note: Refer to the posted PDP information web link for information pertaining to PDP development and processes (http://scotton.iweb.bsu.edu/PDP.htm). This part of the previous licensing requirements has now been fully replaced under the new licensing rules.
NOTE: The first session will meet on August 25th (with a possible exception of one remote site as noted above). Anyone who was not registered in time to participate in the first session, must attend the second session on Sept 9 or they will not be able to take the class until the 2008/09 academic year. Anyone missing the first meeting will be expected to make up the missed session by arrangement with the online instructor and/or program coordinator. Anyone missing both initial sessions will not be allowed to continue the program during the 2008/09 year and will have to register again for the following year.
Sites are still tentative. The list may be revised the week of June 9th.
The Occupational Specialist I Training Program will begin meeting on the last Monday in August (27th) from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm (Tuesday August 28 for Prosser site), 2007 (training site local time), 5:30 to 8:30 for Valparaiso (tentative). The second remote site meeting will take place Monday, September 10th (Tuesday September 11 for Prosser site). These are required training sessions, so it is essential that teachers make arrangements to be available on these two nights. Only those teachers hired after the first session meeting will be allowed to miss the first session.
The first session will primarily be concerned with preparing the teacher for the tools and techniques of the online delivery of the content for the training program and an overview of program requirements and CTE in general. Please note, it is imperative that the teacher have an email account that does not block all bulk mailing because many announcements and other communications to the entire group will be mailed using this type of tool. If the bulk mail blocks cannot be disabled on a current account, it will be necessary to open a new account that will allow this type of control.
Note that all remote site information is still pending confirmation.
Remote site addresses,
contact information, and direction information.
See site group page for
instructor contact information for each site.
The first two sessions meet from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm (5:30-8:30 Valparaiso tentative) local time at one of four assigned remote sites. The tentative sites (pending school confirmation) for this year will be:
Central Nine Career Center, 1999 U.S. 31 South, Greenwood, IN 46143, (Contact person: Tim Lavery or Nancy Olsen @ 317-888-4401); Room 506,
Valparaiso, additional information still pending.
Walker Career Center, 9651 East 21st Street, Indianapolis, IN 46229(Contact person: Cindy Frye @ 317-532-6153); Room 438, Map to WCC (see map for directions inside the building) and
Prosser School of Technology, 4202 Charlestown Rd., New Albany, IN 47150 (Contact person: Clauda Morgan @ 812-949-4266). The main entry door at the front of the bldg ( the one on the left as you stand facing the front of the bldg) is marked #1 . The English lab room is #A112. From the main door #1 come straight down the hall. Just beyond the hallway intersection is A112, first door on the right.
NOTE: Room numbers may change prior to the meeting and sites will be tentative until final confirmation some during summer 2007, these may change if site is no longer available for this purpose.
If detailed directions are needed to the site, you may contact the school using the information above or print a map or directions using one of the following map engines: Mapquest, Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps. Enter the address information for directions and maps. Be sure to note that the maps can be zoomed out if you need a larger area mapped.
The TABE examination has been scheduled. Any candidates that are not comfortable with personal reading, writing, or mathematics skills are encouraged to participate in GED or other preparatory classes offered by the local school systems to "brush up" on these skills prior to taking the TABE examination. Please note there will only be one meeting for taking the TABE. The night for this administration will be posted in the calendar once finalized. The test will tentatively be in March 2009. The precise date will be posted in the course calendar as soon as finalized.
Tentative project coordinator for 2008/09 pending proposal funding.
Mentor Report Forms
There are three reporting forms that must be completed by the OSI teacher and the mentor. One is to verify the completion the OSI teacher has completed the required observations of experienced teachers in the classroom. The second is to verify that the mentor has completed the required observations of the OSI teacher, and the third is to verify that the mentor and OSI teacher have completed the required meetings of the OSI teacher and mentor. Each form explains the minimum requirements at the bottom of the page. The three forms are available below in PDF format only at this time. This requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat to read. Reader is available as a free download at the Adobe website. OSI teachers and directors: Be sure mentors have these forms as soon as possible!!!
OSI teacher observations of experienced teachers
Mentor Observations of OSI teacher
Administrator Manual including Information for Mentors
Mentors should download all four of the files above.
Registration for 2007/08 Now closed
Word version of Registration form for those needing to update information.
Site assignments to date indicated on the linked page.
Reporting forms for the 2007/08 year training which has now been completed.
The two verification forms director's must provide for successful completion of the OSI training are available at the two links immediately below this statement.
Mentor
verification form for 2007-08
MV-Now Available
Must be submitted by CTE Director
Not the mentor or teacher
Please note that mentors not verified by the end of March cannot be paid by the training project, but the service still must be verified for the OSI instructor to complete the training requirements.
On-site verification form for 2007-08
OSV-Now Available
On-site verification forms should be delivered to Sam Cotton by the CTE director no later than mid-September and the mentor verification forms by March 30th.. All teachers should have already received this training which the director is responsible to provide. These forms may now be sent as soon as the training is completed.
This page is maintained by Dr. Sam Cotton for the OSI project. Specific questions pertaining to the training program organization and documentation should be forwarded to the project coordinator. To be announced week of June 9th.
NOTICE: All information on this site has been produced, obtained, or linked by Dr. Samuel Cotton and is in no way endorsed or sponsored by either Ball State University or the College of Applied Sciences and Technology. This site represents the personal views, opinions, and interests of Dr. Samuel Cotton.
Contact Sam Cotton at e-mail: scotton@bsu.eduDepartment of Technology, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306-0255