NAC391.025. Responsibility for licensure; endorsement; substitution of certain requirements for experience.

     1. Each teacher or other educational employee who is required to hold a license is responsible for securing, maintaining and renewing his or her license.

     2. A license must be endorsed in each field of specialization for which the applicant has applied and is deemed qualified.

     3. Three years of verified experience in teaching or in school counseling may be accepted as a substitute for experience as a student teacher or for a school counseling practicum or internship, respectively, if the following conditions are met:

     (a) Each public or private school in which the teaching or school counseling experience occurred is licensed by the State or accredited or certified by a regional or national association for private schools;

     (b) The applicant held a:

          (1) Bachelor’s degree during the period of teaching experience; or

          (2) Master’s degree during the period of school counseling experience,

Ê from an accredited college or university;

     (c) The area of endorsement, degree level and grade level of the license being applied for are consistent with the teaching or school counseling experience submitted by the applicant;

     (d) The teaching or school counseling experience is verified by the school or agency of employment;

     (e) The applicant was eligible for reemployment in the school or agency in which the teaching or school counseling experience occurred; and

     (f) For each year of experience, the teaching or school counseling experience was at the appropriate grade level in a full-time capacity.

     [Bd. of Education, Certification Reg. § 391.020 subsecs. 1-3, eff. 10-23-81; A 3-26-82]—(NAC A by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education, 11-4-91; 7-7-94; 2-24-95; 3-1-96)