ATC Teacher Requirements

Non-degreed individuals will not be eligible for ATC approval.

Teachers must meet one of the two following requirements to be approved to teach a course for Advanced Technical Credit:

Requirement 1: The teacher must have a baccalaureate degree or higher with a major in the teaching discipline.
OR
Requirement 2: The teacher must have a minimum of an associate degree and 3 years verifiable non-teaching work experience directly related to the teaching discipline.

The teaching discipline is the subject area for the ATC course you wish to teach.  For example, the teaching discipline for "Principles of Marketing" would be marketing; the teaching discipline for "Computer Applications" would be computers.

ATC Official Transcript Reminder

The ATC program must have an official transcript from every teacher seeking ATC approval beginning with the 2010-2011 school year. By definition, an official transcript is one that has been received directly from the issuing institution. It must bear the institution’s seal, an appropriate signature and a date.

The following guidelines will assist teachers with this task.

• The best method of delivery is to have the university send the transcript directly to the approval office. However, the teacher will need to notify our office by email that the transcript has been requested. This email should include the teacher’s current name, name listed on the transcript, date-of-birth (mm/dd/yyyy), school district, and campus name. It is imperative that we receive this information to avoid confusion of matching previous names with current names.
• The transcript must be official. If the teacher requests that it be mailed to them personally so they can forward it on to our office, DO NOT open the envelope when it arrives in the mail. On the outside of the sealed envelope, print your current name, date-of-birth (mm/dd/yyyy), school district, and campus name. Place the sealed transcript envelope into another envelope and mail it to our office after you complete a Part II training session.
• Only transcripts that show a degree received are required. It is not necessary to send transcripts showing only course work with no degree.

Official transcripts cannot be faxed or emailed. Copies from the school district’s HR department cannot be accepted.

Also, all teachers must have a current Part I session. With the TEKS rewrites, the only valid expiration dates for Part I are 7/31/2013 and 7/31/2014. Dates of 2011 and 2012 are invalid because of the TEKS rewrites. To register for Part II of the ATC training visit https://atcapproval.wufoo.com/forms/atc-part-ii-registration-agriculture/.

Contact Krista Guerrero (guerrerokk@sfasu.edu) if you have additional questions.