Florida Department of Education
Curriculum Framework

Program Title:	Court Reporting 2 
Program Type:	Career Preparatory
Career Cluster:	Business Management and Administration

Career Certificate Program 	
Program Number	B700600	
CIP Number	0522030305	
Grade Level	30, 31 	
Program Length	600 hours	
Teacher Certification	Refer to the Program Structure section.	
CTSO	PBL, BPA	
SOC Codes (all applicable) 	Please see the CIP to SOC Crosswalk located at the link below.	
CTE Program Resources 	http://www.fldoe.org/academics/career-adult-edu/career-tech-edu/program-resources.stml	
Basic Skills Level	Computation (Mathematics):	10	Communication (Reading and Language Arts):	12	

Purpose

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers such as court reporters, scopists, and transcriptionists in the Business Management and Administration career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Business Management and Administration career cluster. 

The content includes but is not limited to using the stenowriter to record examination proceedings, testimony, judicial opinion, judge’s charge to jury, judgment or sentence of court, or other proceedings.  Instruction includes specialized terminology and procedures used in the legal, medical, industry, insurance, and governmental fields as well as skills for recording multiple-voice.  The content prepares persons to use stenographic skills to record speakers in addition to the preparation of transcripts.  Concepts of legal, medical, and related industries are included in this program so that students may function effectively.

Additional Information relevant to this Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is provided at the end of this document.

Program Structure

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of one occupational completion point.

This program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S.  Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3)(b), F.S.

To teach the courses listed below, instructors must hold at least one of the teacher certifications indicated for that course.

The following table illustrates the postsecondary program structure:

OCP	Course Number	Course Title	Teacher Certification	Length	
A	OTA0047	Court Reporting Scopist I	BUS ED 1 @2
SECRETAR 7 G
TC COOP ED @ 7 G
VOE @7	600 hours	

Common Career Technical Core – Career Ready Practices

Career Ready Practices describe the career-ready skills that educators should seek to develop in their students.  These practices are not exclusive to a Career Pathway, program of study, discipline or level of education.  Career Ready Practices should be taught and reinforced in all career exploration and preparation programs with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study. 

1. Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. 

2. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. 

3. Attend to personal health and financial well-being. 

4. Communicate clearly, effectively and with reason. 

5. Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions. 

6. Demonstrate creativity and innovation. 

7. Employ valid and reliable research strategies. 

8. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 

9. Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management. 

10. Plan education and career path aligned to personal goals. 

11. Use technology to enhance productivity. 

12. Work productively in teams while using cultural/global competence. 

Standards

After successfully completing this program, the student will be able to perform the following:

01.0	Perform stenographic skills.
02.0	Demonstrate knowledge of computer operating systems.
03.0	Demonstrate proficiency of a computer-aided transcription (CAT) system.
04.0	Demonstrate knowledge of legal principles and terminology.

Florida Department of Education
Student Performance Standards

Program Title: 	Court Reporting 2
Career Certificate Program Number: 	B700600

Course Number:  OTA0047 
Occupational Completion Point:  A 
Court Reporting Scopist I – 600 Hours	
01.0	Perform stenographic skills.  The student will be able to:	
01.01	Write and transcribe tests at incremental speeds on unfamiliar material in literary, jury charge, and 2-voice testimony.	
01.02	Write punctuation on the steno writer by means of a real-time translation theory to punctuate and format transcriptions correctly.	
01.03	Read distinctly and with authority dictated material from steno notes or from real-time screens, quickly locating portions to be read.  	
01.04	Analyze stenographic notes and transcription techniques.	
01.05	Continue development of speed and accuracy.	
02.0	Demonstrate knowledge of computer operating systems.  The student will be able to:	
02.01	Perform care and maintenance of basic computer hardware and setup of a real-time system.	
02.02	Create files in various formats such as ASCII or RTF, and transfer to other media, e.g., CD, disk, jump, zip drive, or other state-of-the-art media format.	
02.03	Use appropriate computer terminology.	
03.0	Demonstrate proficiency of a computer-aided transcription (CAT) system.  The student will be able to:	
03.01	Demonstrate understanding of computer-aided transcription terminology.	
03.02	Correctly format two-voice testimony.	
03.03	Correctly write colloquy symbols on the steno writer and correctly format three- and four-voice testimony.	
03.04	Proofread transcripts and documents.	
03.05	Produce a transcript, which includes reading, translating, editing, printing, and using parentheticals and template/layout files.	
03.06	Dictionary management to include creating job dictionaries, loading job dictionaries in proper sequence, editing of dictionary entries, adding new entries, and archival of dictionary files.	
03.07	Produce a complete and accurate transcript of at least ten pages on a computer-aided transcription (CAT) system from the student’s own stenographic notes, which includes:  title page, index, jury charge (if applicable), direct and cross-examination, parentheticals, colloquy, and signature page(s).	
04.0	Demonstrate knowledge of legal principles and terminology.  The student will be able to:	
04.01	Use appropriate legal terminology.	
04.02	Transcribe legal material dictated live or from audio and/or video recordings.	

Additional Information

Laboratory Activities

Laboratory investigations that include scientific inquiry, research, measurement, problem solving, emerging technologies, tools and equipment, as well as, experimental, quality, and safety procedures are an integral part of this career and technical program/course. Laboratory investigations benefit all students by developing an understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of empirical work, as well as the skills required to manage, operate, calibrate and troubleshoot equipment/tools used to make observations. Students understand measurement error; and have the skills to aggregate, interpret, and present the resulting data. Equipment and supplies should be provided to enhance hands-on experiences for students.

Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)

Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) and Business Professionals of America (BPA) are the co-curricular career and technical student organizations providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills.  Career and Technical Student Organizations provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction offered.  

Cooperative Training – OJT

On-the-job training is appropriate but not required for this program.  Whenever offered, the rules, guidelines, and requirements specified in the OJT framework apply. 

Basic Skills 

In Career Certificate programs offered for 450 hours or more, in accordance with Rule 6A-10.040, F.A.C., the minimum basic skills grade levels required for postsecondary adult career and technical students to complete this program are:  Computation (Mathematics) and Communications (Reading and Language Arts). These grade level numbers correspond to a grade equivalent score obtained on a state designated basic skills examination.  

Adult students with disabilities, as defined in Section 1004.02, Florida Statutes, may be exempted from meeting the Basic Skills requirements (Rule 6A-10.040).  Students served in exceptional student education (except gifted) as defined in s. 1003.01, F.S., may also be exempted from meeting the Basic Skills requirement.  Each school district and Florida College System Institution must adopt a policy addressing procedures for exempting eligible students with disabilities from the Basic Skills requirement as permitted in Section 1004.91, F.S.

Accommodations

Federal and state legislation requires the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities to meet individual needs and ensure equal access. Postsecondary students with disabilities must self-identify, present documentation, request accommodations if needed, and develop a plan with their counselor and/or instructors. Accommodations received in postsecondary education may differ from those received in secondary education. Accommodations change the way the student is instructed. Students with disabilities may need accommodations in such areas as instructional methods and materials, assignments and assessments, time demands and schedules, learning environment, assistive technology and special communication systems. Documentation of the accommodations requested and provided should be maintained in a confidential file.

Note: postsecondary curriculum and regulated secondary programs cannot be modified.