NAC391.335. Endorsement to teach grades 5 through 9.

     1. To receive an endorsement to teach pupils in grades 5 through 9, a person must hold a valid elementary or secondary license, or a license to teach middle school or junior high school education, and must have completed at least 12 semester hours of credit in at least three of the following areas of study:

     (a) Teaching and evaluative strategies for the middle school, including study of skills relating to cooperative learning, interdisciplinary teaching and higher-order thinking.

     (b) Methods of teaching mathematics, science, social studies, language arts or reading at a middle school level.

     (c) Social and emotional needs of young adolescents, including study of issues relating to substance abuse, divorce, child abuse and neglect.

     (d) Advisory role of a teacher when working with pupils and their respective parents.

     (e) Philosophy, organization and curriculum of the middle school.

     (f) Theory of scheduling, supervision and evaluation of programs and pupils in a middle school.

     2. In addition, if the applicant does not have prior experience as a teacher in any grade from grade 5 through grade 9, he or she must have successfully completed a practicum with a maximum of 3 credits at grade 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 in a middle school.

     3. An endorsement to teach pupils in grades 5 through 9 is not required to teach pupils in a middle school.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education, eff. 10-1-93; A by R005-05, 10-31-2005)