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 years of experience in a responsible administrative or super-
 visory capacity in the field of business, distributive or
 cooperative education.

 4.54 Experience in Distributive Occupations. A full-time teacher
 trainer shall have at least three years of practical work
 experience as a wage earner in a distributive occupation or
 vocational business education pursuit.

 4.6 Criteria for Designating Teacher-Training Institutions.

 4.61 Minimum Professional Offerings in Distributive Education. A
 designated teacher-training institution shall offer a minimum
 of nine semester hours of professional preparation in distribu-
 tive education annually.

 4. 62 Minimum Technical Offerings in Distribution. Technical
 offerings may be provided by other divisions of the
 institution giving related subjects (e. g., marketing,
 economics, sales psychology) with a minimum of eight
 semester hours of technical course work in distribution
 being selected by the student in consultation with his faculty
 advisor.


5.0 PLAN FOR COORDINATING STUDIES, INVESTIGATIONS, RESEARCH,
 AND THE PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF PROFESSIONAL
 AND TECHNICAL MATERIAL FOR EMPLOYED TEACHERS

 Research may be conducted by the teacher-training institutions designated
 in 4. 3 of this Section, by county boards of public instruction through the
 local director of vocational education, and by the State Board for Voca-
 tional Education through the State Department of Education, when the
 research is confined to one of the following areas of study:

 Identifying and determining distributive and vocational business
 education needs
 Methods of instruction
 Supervision of instruction
 Instructional facilities and materials
 Distributive and business employment occupations
 Placement and follow-up of student learners
 Standards for the organization and administration of the program
 Measuring the effectiveness of instruction
 Selection and training of teachers
 Methods of coordinating training with distributive and business
 needs