Steps to Implementation:
1. Please review the Start Up manual: Biotechnology Program Start-up manual
2. Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/txbiotech/
3. Are you qualified to teach the course? 4. Contact your district CTE manager for course approval, funding and textbooks
5. Determine if you will teach the course as dual credit or articulated credit
6. Complete TEA Adv Biotechnology PD Course Online
7. Contact Jennifer Lazare (jkeelen@austincc.edu) ACC Biotech to sign up for summer training required to offer as college credit
8. Make contacts with your local community college for articulation or dual credit. If your community college has a biotech program, they may be able to partner with you for supplies and college credit.
1. Please review the Start Up manual: Biotechnology Program Start-up manual
2. Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/txbiotech/
3. Are you qualified to teach the course? 4. Contact your district CTE manager for course approval, funding and textbooks
- Equipment Start up list
- Sample consumable Bio-rad order
- Course TEKS
- View TEA Resources page above for help with a proposal to your CTE manager
- Textbook: Biotechnology Science for the New Millennium. Teacher guide and course planner that comes with this book offers a PLETHORA of curriculum ideas. Contact the publisher to ask for a preview copy of the book.
5. Determine if you will teach the course as dual credit or articulated credit
- Articulation Safety Checklist
- Articulation Teacher Checklist
- Dual Credit has a TSI Requirement
6. Complete TEA Adv Biotechnology PD Course Online
7. Contact Jennifer Lazare (jkeelen@austincc.edu) ACC Biotech to sign up for summer training required to offer as college credit
8. Make contacts with your local community college for articulation or dual credit. If your community college has a biotech program, they may be able to partner with you for supplies and college credit.