Professional Report

(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 in accordance with procedures and forms prescribed by the Ohio department of education (education.ohio.gov), and a minimum of three semester hours of an approved pre-service career-technical education program from a college or university that is approved to prepare career-technical workforce development teachers. (3) The individual who is issued the supplemental teaching license agrees to complete, while employed under the supplemental teaching license and subsequent renewals thereof, additional coursework 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 shall assign a mentor to the holder of a supplemental teaching license. The assigned mentor shall be a teacher with teaching experience and standard licensure in the area in which the supplemental teaching license is issued.

(C) Once an individual has been issued a supplemental teaching license for a particular licensure area or teaching field, it will be necessary to complete the supplemental licensure program or the equivalent and be issued a standard teaching license in that area, prior to requesting a supplemental teaching license in another area.

(D) The first renewal of the supplemental teaching license shall require completion of the following:

(1) Maintenance of a currently valid professional or permanent Ohio teaching certificate, or resident educator license, professional teaching license, senior professional educator license or lead professional educator licensure;

(2) An additional six semester hours of coursework in a program or content area leading to licensure in the area in which the supplemental teaching license is held; and

(3) Successful completion of the examination prescribed by the state board of education for the licensure area.

(4) Except for the area of career-technical workforce development, if it has been determined via transcript evaluation/equivalent review by the Ohio department of education that all of the required coursework for the licensure area has already been completed, then the only requirement for the first renewal of the supplemental teaching license will be the examination prescribed by the state board of education for the licensure area. (E) The second renewal of the supplemental teaching license shall require completion of an additional six semester hours of coursework in a program or content area leading to licensure in the area in which the supplemental teaching license is held and maintenance of a currently valid professional or permanent Ohio teaching certificate or resident educator license, professional teaching license, senior professional educator license or lead professional educator license.

(F) In order to advance from a supplemental teaching license to a standard teaching license, the requirements specified in paragraphs (E)(1) to (E)(6) of this rule shall be successfully completed, as applicable to the type of supplemental teaching license that is held:

(1) Intervention specialist or early childhood intervention specialist: an approved program of preparation and recommendation by the dean or head of teacher education or the equivalent, which is defined as completion of a thirty semester hour major in the specified area of intervention specialist or early childhood intervention specialist, with a minimum of eighteen semester hours of