You seem to know your stuff in regards to alternative routes to certification and I wanted to ask your opinion on a hypothetical case.
Someone, let's call him Robert, is a Spanish teacher. Robert did an online masters degree in teaching Spanish from a university in Puerto Rico, and this helped him land a job at an international school in southeast Asia (this was some years ago). However, Robert does not actually have an actual teaching license from the US (as his program did not lead to certification). Furthermore, although his program is locally valid in Puerto Rico as it is registered with CEPR (Puerto Rico's Council of Education), the University is not regionally accredited by any of the 7 American regional accreditation agencies. In practice, this means that some countries may choose not to recognize Robert's degree.
Any ideas on possible pathways for Robert to get a teaching license? Would completing a program like Teach Now or similar be the only choice? Can you think of ways around being able to use Robert's degree to at least shorten the time needed to obtain a license somewhere/somehow?
Unfortunately, given PR is part of the US, I imagine that it would not be possible to have the degree be evaluated to a US equivalent and then go through Hawaii or similar...
What possible pathways are there?