NAC391.042. Initial license requiring student teaching experience: Conditions for substitution of teaching experience.

An applicant for an initial license for which student teaching experience is required may substitute in place of such experience:

     1. Three years of teaching experience if:

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

     (b) For each year of teaching experience, the applicant taught at the appropriate grade level in a full-time capacity;

     (c) The applicant held a bachelor’s degree or higher during each year of teaching experience;

     (d) The applicant was eligible for reemployment in the school district or school in which the teaching experience occurred;

     (e) The area of endorsement, degree level and grade level of the license being applied for are consistent with the teaching experience completed by the applicant; and

     (f) The teaching experience completed by the applicant is verified by the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the experience occurred.

     2. A paid or unpaid supervised internship if:

     (a) The internship was taken as part of a course of study at a regionally accredited college or university;

     (b) The applicant earned a number of semester hours of credit for completing the internship that is equivalent to the number of semester hours of student teaching required for the license; and

     (c) The internship was at a grade level appropriate to the license being sought.

     3. A license or certificate to teach that was issued by another state if:

     (a) Student teaching was required as a condition of obtaining the license or certificate; and

     (b) The applicant fulfilled that requirement.

     4. The supervised, school-based experience provided by a qualified provider for the completion of a program for an alternative route to licensure.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education, eff. 3-27-92; A 3-1-96; R094-99, 11-2-99; R115-11, 10-4-2013)