NAC391.436. Endorsement as substitute teacher of business and industry: Issuance; qualifications for receipt and first renewal; period of hire.

     1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall issue to a qualified applicant an endorsement as a substitute teacher of business and industry for a specific program included in a career and technical education group identified in NAC 391.420.

     2. To receive an endorsement as a substitute teacher of business and industry, the applicant must:

     (a) Have earned a high school diploma or its equivalent;

     (b) Have been employed for at least 3 years, after 16 years of age, in a position which relates to the program for which he or she is applying for the endorsement; and

     (c) Submit written verification of the employment required by paragraph (b) in the format required by the Department.

     3. One of the 3 years of work experience required by paragraph (b) of subsection 2 may be fulfilled by the completion of courses or training in an area of career and technical education which relates to the desired endorsement at the rate of 1 year of full-time employment to:

     (a) Sixteen semester hours of credit from an accredited or licensed postsecondary institution;

     (b) Two hundred and fifty hours of training from an accredited or licensed postsecondary institution;

     (c) Two thousand hours of part-time employment; or

     (d) One thousand hours of employment, which is preplanned. A training agreement between industry and the appropriate sponsor must be on file with, supervised by and approved by an accredited postsecondary institution or the Department.

     4. A person who desires to renew for the first time an endorsement issued pursuant to this section must provide proof that he or she has completed 3 semester hours of credit from an accredited postsecondary institution in a course that is approved by the Department and that involves career and technical education teaching methodology.

     5. A school district may hire a person who has an endorsement as a substitute teacher of business and industry in kindergarten through grade 12 for:

     (a) Unlimited days of service if filling the position of a licensed teacher who is under contract.

     (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, 60 days of service if filling a teaching position for which a licensed teacher has not been hired under contract.

     6. The Department may grant a school district one extension for 30 days with regard to a person who is hired pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 5 in an exceptional case upon request from the superintendent of schools of the school district.

     7. An endorsement issued pursuant to this section is not subject to the provisions of NAC 391.030 and 391.036.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Prof. Standards in Education by R037-08, eff. 6-17-2008)