PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Highly "Qualified"?
Carefully review this document as it clarifies the highly qualified teacher requirements for special education teachers assigned to core academic subjects in grades 7-12, including options for meeting them. The document also offers viable professional development opportunities - which should yield useful professional learning - for those special education teachers who are assigned to teach mathematics and/or science.
You may also read here to see if you meet the current guidelines under ESEA.
Read the guidelines, find important dates for applying, or access the reimbursement form.
National Board Certification is a demonstration of a person's teaching practice as measured against high and rigorous standards. It is a symbol of commitment to excellence in teaching. Sponsored by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, this certification is a credential attesting that a teacher has been assessed by peers as one who is accomplished, makes sound professional judgments about student learning, and acts effectively on those judgments.
ODE Posts Certification (or Licensure) and Assignment Information
In response to requirements in the federal ESEA (No Child Left Behind) Act. Read for more information.
Certification/License Information Update
Read this important information to see the latest requirements.
Requirements-Professional (5 YR.) License
Recently OAESA received the following special announcement from the Ohio
Dept. of Education concerning the educational (reading) requirements for
individuals holding a provisional (2 yr.) license to successfully
transition to a professional (5 yr.) license. The requirement to complete
course work in the INSTRUCTION OF READING, applies to individuals holding
the new EARLY CHILDHOOD, MIDDLE CHILDHOOD and intervention specialists
licenses. This information may be particularly important for your new
teachers. If you, or your teachers, have questions concerning any of the
requirements for transitioning from the provisional to the professional
license, OAESA would suggest a contact be made with ODE's Office of
Teacher Education and Licensure (614-466-3593).
Reading Requirement for Newly Licensed
Teachers
Under current Ohio law, teachers holding licenses for early childhood,
middle childhood, or intervention specialist are required to complete six
semester hours of reading courses for a provisional license. However, the
professional license requires twelve (12) semester credit hours, or the
equivalent, in reading. Teachers who hold the new two-year provisional
licenses should plan now to acquire the additional six credit hours before
they apply for their five-year professional license. If provisional
license holders have not completed the necessary coursework, their
application for a professional license will be denied.
Be mindful that some institutions of higher education require that their
graduates complete all 12 semester credit hours before graduation, while
others require just the six semester credit hours required by law.
Teachers should check their transcripts and, if they do not already have
the required 12 credits, enroll in the needed coursework as soon as
possible so that it can be completed before their provisional licenses
expire. Provisional licenses issued in 2002 will expire on June 30, 2004.