(A) A professional teaching license, valid for five years, shall
be issued to an individual who holds the appropriate resident educator license
or alternative resident educator license; who is deemed to be of good moral
character; and who has successfully completed an approved program of teacher
preparation as approved by the chancellor of the Ohio department of higher
education, the Ohio teacher residency program as described in section 3319.223
of the Revised Code, and an examination prescribed by the state board of
education. Teacher licenses shall be issued in the areas described in
paragraphs (A)(1) to (A)(7) of this rule:
(1) Elementary and middle school license, valid in teaching
grades prekindergarten through grade eight. A minimum of twelve cumulative
semester hours in teaching of reading, as described in section 3319.24 of the
Revised Code, is needed for this license. This license will become available
for first-time applicants July 1, 2030.
(2) Early childhood license issued under
former section 3319.22 of the Revised Code, valid for teaching in grades
prekindergarten through grade three. A minimum of twelve cumulative semester
hours in the teaching of reading as described in section 3319.24 of the Revised
Code shall be required for the professional early childhood license. Beginning
December 31, 2031, this license is only available to current holders of the
license who are seeking to renew the license.
(3) Primary license, valid for teaching
in grades prekindergarten through grade five. A minimum of twelve cumulative
semester hours in the teaching of reading as described in section 3319.24 of
the Revised Code shall be required for the professional primary license.
Beginning December 31, 2031, this license is only available to current holders
of the license who are seeking to renew the license.
(4) Middle childhood license, valid for
teaching in grades four through nine in two or more curriculum areas named in
such license. The middle childhood teacher preparation program shall include
preparation in at least two of the following areas of concentration: reading
and language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. A minimum of
twelve cumulative semester hours in the teaching of reading as described in
section 3319.24 of the Revised Code shall be required for the professional
middle childhood license. A middle childhood license may be issued in one or
more of the concentration areas listed in this paragraph to the holder of a
standard teaching certificate or teaching license, who has completed an
approved middle childhood program, at an advanced level, consisting of
professional education and appropriate content-area coursework, and an
examination prescribed by the state board of education. A middle childhood
license may also be issued in one or more of the concentration areas listed in
this paragraph to an out-of-state applicant who has completed an approved
program resulting in eligibility for the licensure area, and an examination
prescribed by the state board of education. Beginning December 31, 2031, this
license is only available to current holders of the license who are seeking to
renew the license.
(5) Adolescence to young adult license,
valid for teaching in grades seven through twelve in the curriculum areas named
in such license. Preparation in the teaching field shall constitute at least an
academic major or its equivalent with sufficient advanced coursework in all
areas to be taught as specified by the teacher preparation institution. A
minimum of three semester hours in the teaching of reading in the content area
shall be required for the professional adolescence to young adult license.
Licenses shall be issued in, but are not limited to, the following teaching
fields:
(a) Earth sciences
(b) Integrated language arts
(c) Integrated mathematics
(d) Integrated science
(e) Integrated social studies
(f) Life sciences
(g) Physical sciences (individuals may seek licensure in physical
sciences: chemistry; physical sciences: physics; or physical sciences:
chemistry and physics)
(6) Multi-age license, valid for teaching
in grades prekindergarten through twelve in the curriculum areas named in such
license. Preparation in the teaching field shall constitute at least an
academic major or its equivalent with sufficient advanced coursework in all
areas to be taught as specified by the teacher preparation institution. A
minimum of three semester hours in the teaching of reading in the content area
shall be required for the professional multi-age license.
Licenses shall be issued in, but are not
limited to, the following teaching fields:
(a) Computer information science
(b) Dance
(c) Drama/theater
(d) World language
(e) Health
(f) Library/media specialist
(g) Music
(h) Physical education
(i) Teaching English to speakers of other languages
(TESOL)
(j) Visual arts
(7) Intervention specialist license,
valid for teaching learners in the areas designated below. A minimum of twelve
cumulative semester hours in the teaching of reading as described in section
3319.24 of the Revised Code shall be required for the professional intervention
specialist license. Licenses shall be issued in, but not limited to, the
following areas:
(a) Gifted, valid for teaching learners ages five through
twenty-one and in grades kindergarten through grade twelve;
(b) Mild/moderate educational needs, valid for teaching learners
ages five through twenty-one and in grades kindergarten through grade
twelve;
(c) Moderate/intensive educational needs, valid for teaching
learners ages five through twenty-one and in grades kindergarten through grade
twelve;
(d) Visually impaired, valid for teaching learners ages three
through twenty-one and in grades prekindergarten through grade
twelve;
(e) Hearing impaired, valid for teaching learners ages three
through twenty-one and in grades prekindergarten through grade
twelve.
(8) Early childhood intervention
specialist license, valid for teaching mild/moderate/intensive educational
needs in grades prekindergarten through grade three, and for providing service
coordination. A minimum of twelve cumulative semester hours in the teaching of
reading as described in section 3319.24 of the Revised Code shall be required
for the professional early childhood intervention specialist
license.
(9) Primary intervention specialist
license, valid for teaching in grades prekindergarten through five and for
providing service coordination. A minimum of twelve cumulative semester hours
in the teaching of reading as described in section 3319.24 of the Revised Code
shall be required for the professional primary intervention specialist
license.
(10) The career-technical license, valid
for teaching the subjects named in such license grades four through twelve.
Preparation in the teaching field shall constitute at least an academic major
or its equivalent with sufficient advanced coursework in all areas to be taught
as specified by the teacher preparation institution. A minimum of three
semester hours in the teaching of reading in the content area shall be required
for the professional career-technical license.
(B) Individuals who hold an early childhood license, a
primary license, a middle childhood license, or an adolescence to young adult
license may continue to renew the respective license. Alternatively, current
holders of those licenses may renew the license as an elementary and middle
school license or adolescence to young adult license, so long as the new
license authorizes the teacher to teach one or more of the same grade levels as
was authorized by the prior license. An individual who converts from an early
childhood license, primary license, or a middle childhood license to an
elementary and middle school license or adolescence to young adult license, or
an individual who converts an adolescence to young adult license to an
elementary and middle school license, may revert to the grade band in which he
or she was priorly licensed during a future renewal cycle. Individuals who
convert to a new grade band at the time of renewal will need to complete any
additional requirements applicable to the new grade band, which may
include:
(1) Hours of reading instruction required for the
license;
(2) A foundations of reading assessment;
and/or
(3) Content area assessments.
(C) An endorsement of a teaching license, valid for
teaching the subject or learners named, shall be issued to an individual who
holds a baccalaureate degree, except that the teacher leader endorsement shall
require a master's degree; who is deemed to be of good moral character;
who has successfully completed an approved program of preparation; who has
successfully completed an examination prescribed by the state board of
education; and who has been recommended by the dean or head of teacher
education at an approved institution. The endorsement may be added to any
standard teaching certificate or license, unless limited by age, grade, or
license type as noted in this paragraph:
(1) Adapted physical
education (limited to a physical education certificate or license), valid for
teaching in grades prekindergarten through grade twelve;
(2) Bilingual education, valid for
teaching in grades prekindergarten through grade twelve;
(3) Career-based intervention (CBI) shall
require a baccalaureate degree, two years of successful teaching experience
under a standard teaching certificate or license, and evidence of the
equivalent of one year of work experience outside of education. This
endorsement is valid for teaching learners ages twelve through twenty-one, or
grades seven through twelve;
(4) Computer/technology, valid for
teaching in grades prekindergarten through grade twelve;
(5) Computer science,
valid for teaching in grades prekindergarten through twelve;
(6) Drama/theater;
(7) Early childhood
generalist (grades four and five), valid for teaching all core academic content
areas in grades four and five, may be added to an early childhood
(prekindergarten through grade three) teaching license upon evidence of
completion of a minimum of nine additional semester hours of study aligned with
the Ohio's learning standards (available on the department's website
at education.ohio.gov) for grades four and five and including preparation in
pedagogy and child/adolescent development appropriate for grades four and five,
and upon successful completion of an examination prescribed by the state board
of education;
(8) Gifted intervention specialist, valid
for teaching in grades kindergarten through grade twelve;
(9) Mathematics specialist (limited to a
kindergarten-primary, elementary, or early childhood license, or middle
childhood, high school, or adolescence to young adult mathematics teaching
license), valid for providing coaching and professional development in
mathematics education for classroom teachers of mathematics in grades
prekindergarten through six. Candidates must have at least three years of
successful experience teaching mathematics under a standard teaching
certificate or license of the types listed in this paragraph;
(10) Media
arts;
(11) Middle childhood generalist, valid
for teaching all core academic content areas in grades four, five, and six, may
be added to a middle childhood license with two concentration areas upon
evidence of completion of an additional six semester hours of study in each of
the content areas to be added, aligned with Ohio's learning standards;
evidence of preparation in pedagogy in each of the additional content areas;
and successful completion of the prescribed examination;
(12) Prekindergarten, valid for teaching
learners ages three through five (limited to kindergarten-primary, elementary,
family and consumer sciences [home economics], or special certificate for
education of the handicapped);
(13) Prekindergarten special needs, valid
for teaching learners ages three through five (limited to a prekindergarten
certificate, or special certificate for education of the handicapped, early
childhood, primary or intervention specialist license);
(14) Reading, valid for teaching in grades
prekindergarten through grade twelve;
(15) Teaching English to speakers of other
languages, valid for teaching in grades prekindergarten through grade
twelve;
(16) Transition to work (limited to
intervention specialist license, career-technical license or professional pupil
services license, valid for teaching in grades seven through grade twelve);
and
(17) Teacher leader (limited to a
professional teaching license or professional or permanent teaching
certificate), valid for mentoring and coaching teachers in grades
prekindergarten through grade twelve, providing staff development, and
assisting the building principal in developing and supporting a shared vision
and clear goals for the school. Candidates for the endorsement shall hold a
master's degree at the time the endorsement is issued and have at least
four years of successful teaching experience. The program of preparation shall
include a practicum experience during which the candidate shall be required to
demonstrate the knowledge, skills and dispositions at the distinguished level
that are described in the Ohio standards for the teaching profession (available
on the educator standards board's website at
esb.ode.state.oh.us).
(D) The professional pupil services license, shall be
issued in, but is not limited to, the areas listed in paragraphs (C)(1) and
(C)(2) of this rule and shall be valid for working with learners at all levels.
The license shall be issued to an individual deemed to be of good moral
character who has successfully completed the requirements specified in
paragraph (C)(1) or (C)(2) of this rule:
(1) An approved program
of preparation; recommendation by the dean or head of teacher education;
successful completion of an examination prescribed by the state board of
education; and evidence of the education and experience requirements specified
for whichever of the following licensure areas is applicable:
(a) School audiologist
(i) Master's degree;
and
(ii) Current license to practice audiology issued by the Ohio
speech and hearing professionals board.
(b) School counselor
(i) Master's degree, and
(ii) Successful
completion of an internship consisting of six hundred contact hours in a school
setting.
(c) School social worker
(i) Master's degree,
and
(ii) Current license to practice social work issued by the Ohio
counselor, and social worker and marriage and family therapist
board;
(d) School speech-language pathologist
(i) Master's degree,
and
(ii) Current license to practice as a speech pathologist issued by
the Ohio speech and hearing professionals board;
(e) School nurse
(i) Baccalaureate degree,
and
(ii) Current license to practice as a registered nurse issued by
the Ohio board of nursing;
(iii) A school nurse wellness coordinator endorsement may be added
to a professional pupil services school nurse license, or to a professional or
permanent school nurse certificate, following completion of an approved program
of preparation for the endorsement, and upon evidence of three years of
successful experience as a licensed school nurse. The approved program of
preparation for the endorsement shall include a practicum experience during
which the candidate shall be required to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and
dispositions for the school nurse wellness coordinator endorsement as
recommended by the school health services advisory council's report
(available on the department's website at education.ohio.gov). Beginning
January 1, 2020, initial applicants for the school nurse wellness coordinator
endorsement shall hold a master's degree.
(f) Orientation and mobility specialist
(2) A baccalaureate
degree and who holds a current license issued by the Ohio occupational therapy,
physical therapy, and athletic trainers board for the following:
(a) Occupational therapist, or
(b) Physical therapist.
(E) The professional administrator license shall be issued
to an individual who holds a master's degree, who is deemed to be of good
moral character, who has successfully completed an approved program of
preparation for the licensure area sought, and who has been recommended by the
dean or head of teacher education at an institution approved to prepare
administrators, who has successfully completed an examination prescribed by the
state board of education, and who has evidenced the requirements specified
below. Administrator licenses shall be issued in the following
areas:
(1) The professional
principal license shall be issued in the areas described in paragraphs
(D)(1)(a) to (D)(1)(e) of this rule to an individual who has completed the
requirements specified in paragraph (D) of this rule and who has completed two
years of successful teaching under one of the standard licenses specified in
paragraphs (D)(1)(a) to (D)(1)(c) of this rule or two years of successful work
experience in a school under the license specified in paragraph (D)(1)(d) of
this rule at the age/grade levels for which the principal license is
sought:
(a) Prekindergarten through grade six for those with an early
childhood, primary, middle childhood, multi-age, or intervention specialist
license;
(b) Grades four through nine for those with a middle childhood,
multi-age, adolescence to young adult, intervention specialist license, or
career-technical license; and
(c) Grades five through twelve for those with a middle
childhood, multi-age, intervention specialist, adolescence to young adult, or
career-technical license.
(d) Grades prekindergarten to twelve for those with a pupil
services license.
(e) The urban principal endorsement may be added to any standard
principal license or certificate. The endorsement shall be valid for the same
ages and grade levels as the principal license or certificate that is held by
the candidate obtaining the endorsement. The approved program of preparation
for the endorsement shall include an extensive structured internship during
which the candidate demonstrates effective urban leadership
practices.
(2) The administrative
specialist license shall be valid for working in a central office or
supervisory capacity. The following requirement shall be met prior to issuance
of the administrative specialist license:
Two years of successful teaching experience
under a professional, standard teaching license; with the exception of the
pupil services administration license, which shall require two years of
experience under a professional pupil services license.
(3) The superintendent
license shall be issued to an individual who holds a principal or
administrative specialist license and shall be valid for supervising programs
for prekindergarten through grade twelve; or for administrative duties in a
school system. The following requirement shall be met prior to issuance of the
superintendent license:
Three years of successful experience in a
position as a principal or administrative specialist while holding the
respective license.
(F) The associate license, valid for five years, shall be
issued to an individual who holds an associate degree; who is deemed to be of
good moral character; and who either:
(1) Has completed an
approved program of preparation in the following areas:
(a) Prekindergarten associate;
(b) Educational paraprofessional (denoted as ESEA
qualified);
(c) Interpreter for the hearing impaired; or,
(2) Holds a current
license to practice issued by the Ohio occupational therapy, physical therapy,
and athletic trainers board in the following areas:
(a) Occupational therapy assistant; or
(b) Physical therapy assistant.
(G) The professional school business manager or the
professional school treasurer license, valid for five years, shall be issued to
an individual who holds a baccalaureate degree, who is deemed to be of good
moral character, who has successfully completed an approved preparation program
as approved by the chancellor of the Ohio department of higher education or the
equivalent as determined by the Ohio department of education, and who has
successfully completed an examination prescribed by the state board of
education.
(H) The non-renewable three-year visiting international
teacher license, valid for teaching the grade levels and curriculum areas named
in such license.
(1) The license shall be
issued upon the request of an employing Ohio school district to a qualified
individual who meets the following conditions:
(a) Is deemed to be of good moral character;
(b) Is a citizen of another country who will be entering the
United States specifically for the purpose of teaching in an Ohio school or
school district that has agreed to employ the person as a teacher via an
exchange program or other collaboration or recruitment effort;
(c) Holds the United States equivalent of at least a
bachelor's degree and provides evidence of completion of a teacher
preparation program;
(d) Provides evidence of completion of an academic major in the
area to be taught, or, in the case of world languages, evidence of proficiency
in the target language as determined by the employing Ohio school district or
the Ohio department of education; and
(e) Demonstrates English language proficiency as determined by
the employing Ohio school district or the Ohio department of
education.
(2) The employing Ohio
school district, with assistance from the Ohio department of education, shall
plan for a mentoring program for visiting international teachers to provide
ongoing support and assistance in areas such as school culture, curriculum,
assessment, management, and resources.
(3) If a visiting
international teacher wishes to continue teaching in the schools of Ohio beyond
the three year validity period of the visiting international teacher license,
an extension of the initial three year license may be issued for no more than
two years if the educator provides sufficient evidence that the educator's
J-1 visa has been extended.
(I) The one-year non-renewable out of state educator
license, valid for teaching the grade levels and curriculum areas named in such
license, shall be issued upon the request of an employing Ohio school district
to a qualified individual who meets the following:
(1) Is deemed to be of
good moral character;
(2) Is an out of state
applicant and the holder of a valid out of state standard teaching license who
has completed a baccalaureate degree, an approved teacher preparation program,
and the examination prescribed by the state in which licensure is held, but who
has not yet successfully completed the examination prescribed by the state
board of education for Ohio licensure.
(3) At least six of the
required twelve semester hours of coursework in the teaching of reading as
described in section 3319.24 of the Revised Code for educators requesting an
early childhood, primary, middle childhood, intervention specialist, early
childhood intervention specialist, or primary intervention specialist license.
The remaining coursework requirement will be listed as a limitation on the
license and must be completed before the out-of-state license expiration
date.
(J) The one year or four year adult education permit, valid
for teaching adults in an adult education program, shall be issued to an
appropriately qualified individual deemed to be of good moral character, who
has a high school diploma or the equivalent. An adult education program,
includes, but is not limited to, the following examples:
(1) A career-technical
education program which provides training for out-of-school adults, frequently
to improve occupational skills; and
(2) A community-based
education program for personal enrichment.
