{"id":299,"date":"2015-12-23T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2018-05-31T19:07:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:07:22","slug":"michigan-now-requires-actfl-tests-for-teacher-credentialing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/michigan-now-requires-actfl-tests-for-teacher-credentialing\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Now Requires ACTFL Tests for Teacher Credentialing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-entry\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Michigan-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Michigan-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Michigan.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Language Testing International (LTI)\u00a0is pleased to announce that Michigan is now the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0state requiring ACTFL tests for Teacher Credentialing.\u00a0 We have\u00a0moved steadily forward, adding OPIc and ProFluent+ to many states that have\u00a0previously only accepted the OPI.\u00a0Additionally,\u00a0we are continually adding new states to our growing list overall.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0addition of Michigan means that the state will now require OPI or OPIc to meet the oral proficiency requirement for World Language Educators.\u00a0More, importantly,\u00a0it is one of 16\u00a0(of those 26) states that requires our tests for\u00a0<strong><em>ALL<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0languages.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we are\u00a0past the mid-point of states that require ACTFL tests, we\u00a0will continue the effort and seek to land the 27th state and beyond in the coming year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Testing International (LTI)\u00a0is pleased to announce that Michigan is now the 26th\u00a0state requiring ACTFL tests for Teacher Credentialing.\u00a0 We have\u00a0moved steadily forward, adding OPIc and ProFluent+ to many states that have\u00a0previously only accepted the OPI.\u00a0Additionally,\u00a0we are continually adding new states to our growing list overall. The\u00a0addition of Michigan means that the state will now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-academic-testing-actfl-nabe-tesol-biliteracy-language-testing-high-school-lti-testing-academic"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ltidevcloud.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}