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Applicant must complete six semester hours (or the equivalent) of professional education coursework within the past five years with a GPA of 2.5, and from a college or university approved to prepare teachers, as follows: three hours in teaching methods, including field experience, and three hours in developmental characteristics of adolescent youths;

License (two-year non-renewable) is issued on verification of employment by superintendent of school district; Employing school district agrees to provide a structured mentoring program.

Applicant must complete two years of teaching under the alternative license;

bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education; 30 semester (45 quarter) hours in the world language to be taught with a 2.5 GPA or higher consisting of coursework well distributed across the subject area,

Successful completion

(IPTI)

The program enables individuals to begin teaching while continuing to work toward the requirements of the provisional educator license, which is the standard license in Ohio.

If you are applying for licensure in social studies, integrated language arts or integrated science, you will need to have 60 credit hours of coursework in the content area. In some cases, work experience may substitute for courses.

This instruction must include supervised field experience

Alternative routes to teacher certification are state-defined routes through which an individual who already has at least a bachelor’s degree can obtain certification to teach without necessarily having to go back to college and complete a college, campus-based teacher education program.

One-third of current state alternative routes to teacher certification have been created since 2000. More than half of them have been established in the last 15 years.

Has not completed an approved educator preparation program with student teaching.

Candidates must be employed full-time and teach a minimum of 51 percent in the approved content area