Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) A supplemental teaching license,
renewable two times, shall be issued at the request of the superintendent of a
city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district, educational
service center, or the governing authority of a chartered nonpublic school or
community school to an individual who:
(1) Is
deemed to be of good moral character;
(2) Holds a currently valid professional or
permanent Ohio teaching certificate or resident educator license, or
professional teaching license, senior professional educator license or lead
professional educator license;
(3)
Is employed in one the following supplemental licensure areas or teaching
fields:
(a) Intervention specialist, primary
intervention specialist, middle childhood intervention specialist, and
adolescence to young adult intervention specialist;
(b) Adolescence to young adult, middle
childhood, multi-age, or career-technical;
(c)
Primary;
(d) Endorsement areas (as specified in rule
3301-24-05 of the Administrative
Code, excluding endorsements that are not teaching areas: teacher leader,
literacy specialist, mathematics specialist, science specialist and
career-technical worksite teacher/coordinator): The individual must hold the
appropriate prerequisite credential as specified for the endorsement area;
and
(e) Career-technical workforce
development areas: Five years of fulltime work experience or the equivalent in
the career field, as verified by the employing school district.
(f)
Montessori
education. For individuals meeting the requirements of section
3319.261 of the Revised
Code.
(4)
Successfully completes an examination prescribed by the state board of
education in the licensure area.
(5) Agrees to complete, while employed under
the supplemental teaching license and subsequent renewals thereof, additional
coursework, if applicable, and testing requirements for full licensure in the
supplemental area as a condition of holding and teaching under a supplemental
teaching license.
(B) The
employing school district
will assign a mentor to the individual holding a
supplemental teaching license. The assigned mentor
will be an
experienced teacher who currently holds a license in the same
or a reasonably similar content area as the
supplemental license.
(C)
An individual may only hold one valid supplemental
license at a time. Before the department will issue an individual a
supplemental teaching license in another area, the supplemental licensee must
complete the supplmental licensure program or equivalent thereof and be issued
a standard teaching license in the area of the currently held supplemental
license or allow the individual's current supplemental
teaching license to lapse.
(D) An individual may advance from a
supplemental teaching license to a standard teaching license upon:
(1) Verification from the employing
superintendent that the individual holding the supplemental teaching license
has taught successfully in the licensure area for a minimum of two years;
and
(2) Completing the following
requirements as applicable to the licensure area or teaching field sought:
(a) Intervention specialist,
primary intervention
specialist, middle childhood intervention specialist,
or adolescence to young adult intervention specialist licensure:
a grade level specific pedagogy course and twelve semester hours in
the teaching of reading as described in section
3319.24 of the Revised
Code;
(b) Adolescence to young
adult, multi-age, and career-technical licensure:
a grade level
specific pedagogy course;
(c)
Middle childhood licensure:
a grade level
specific pedagogy couse and twelve semester hours in the teaching of reading as
described in section 3319.24 of the Revised Code;
and
(d)
Primary licensure:
a grade level
specific pedagogy course and twelve semester hours in the teaching of reading
as described in section
3319.24 of the Revised Code.
