Year long elective course
Honors course
Admission criteria includes 3.0 GPA, application process, and three teacher recommendations
Curriculum and artifacts aligned with the Elementary Introduction to Education course EDU 221 (at the Community College System)
Colorado supplements to curriculum include required teacher licensure artifacts in five areas
Requires Teacher Cadet teacher training and license though CERRA
Reimbursable if taught in an approved Career & Technical Education program
Training in Colorado is four days, cost approximately $550, includes curriculum, trainer expenses, and lunches (CSU credit available)
Credit articulation/options to community colleges and universities

TEACHER CADET IS AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM THAT…

Studies growth and development of the learner
Examines the historical, social, political, cultural and legal forces that shape education in the US public school system
Explores the role of the teacher and philosophy that guides teaching
Investigates the Colorado teacher licensure process
Provides a six week mini-teaching internship, a professional shadow experience, and observations of learners at all age groups

The South Carolina Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement developed the Teacher Cadet program twenty years ago.  They have trained educators in more than thirty states.  Colorado is in the fifth year of implementation and has seen the program grow from two high schools to thirty-one and from one to twenty school districts.

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Colorado Teacher Cadet (TC) is an approved program under secondary Career & Technical Education programs in the Education Career Cluster through the Colorado Community College Systems (CCCS).
TC uses a licensed curriculum developed by the South Carolina Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement (CERRA).  Teacher Cadet began in South Carolina in 1985; the curriculum has been routinely revised/updated and is currently in the ninth edition.
Colorado has aligned TC with state teacher licensure standards.
Colorado has CERRA certified trainers and conducts the training each summer in Colorado.
Colorado TC training is four days usually conducted in the last two weeks of July.  Currently the price for training $550 which includes the curriculum, license and a variety of supplemental materials.  The training cost is a reimbursable expense through Career & Technical Education.
All teachers planning to teach TC must complete Colorado’s curriculum training (per CERRA license agreement) and program implementation according to license and Colorado state guidelines.
Schools sending a teacher to Teacher Cadet Teacher summer curriculum training must have a class in place for the coming school year.
Schools should select an exemplary teacher to teach TC.  CCCS has developed a simple process which allows a non CTE teacher to become CTE credentialed for TC.  This allows schools/district to access CTE funds.
TC teachers must hold a current Colorado secondary professional teachers license.
TC instructors must meet the criteria for college teaching, therefore, as of 2007 all teachers who train to be TC instructors must have an education related master’s degree.
Teacher Cadet has been articulated to the CCCS Elementary Education EDU 221 Introduction of Education course.  Communication is in process with the four-year teacher education institutions to develop a career pathway for growing our own teachers.
Teacher Cadet is a year-long, honors course for high school juniors and seniors that includes approximately a six-week mini-teaching internship.
TC student admission criteria include a 3.0 GPA, application process and three teacher recommendations.
TC has been aligned to the Colorado Reading and Writing Model Content Standards.  Two school districts offer TC as an elective English credit.
Colorado currently has teachers trained thirty-five schools in nineteen school districts.
Program public relations and recruitment information can be found on the Colorado Teacher Cadet web site:  http://www.coloradoteachercadet.com