Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 391 - EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL
SPECIAL ENDORSEMENTS
Section 391.281 - Endorsement to teach physical education and health

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 391.281

Current through September 16, 2024

To receive an endorsement to teach physical education and health, a person must hold a bachelor's degree and have completed:

1. An approved program of preparation for teaching physical education and health to pupils in kindergarten through grade 12; or

2. A course of study consisting of:

(a) Fifty-one semester hours of credit which includes course work in each of the following areas of study:
(1) Anatomical kinesiology or mechanical kinesiology, or both;

(2) The physiology of exercise;

(3) Testing and measuring the skill and ability of a pupil in physical education;

(4) The psychological or social aspects of physical education, or both;

(5) Motor learning or motor development, or both;

(6) Adapted physical education;

(7) Movement activities for pupils in preschool and primary grades;

(8) Movement activities for pupils in intermediate grades;

(9) Advanced first aid or an equivalent course of study;

(10) Sex education;

(11) Nutrition;

(12) Substance abuse;

(13) Personal health or personal hygiene, or both; and

(14) Methods and techniques of teaching:
(I) Physical fitness;

(II) Team sports;

(III) Rhythms and dance or rhythmic activities for pupils in elementary school; and

(IV) Individual sports; and

(b) Twenty-two semester hours of credit in professional education which includes:
(1) Foundations of education;

(2) Methods of teaching physical education to pupils in elementary and secondary grades; and

(3) Eight semester hours of credit as a student teacher in a composite program in elementary and secondary grades which includes 4 semester hours of credit in elementary grades and 4 semester hours of credit in secondary grades.

Added to NAC by Comm'n on Prof. Standards in Education, R077-17AP, eff. 6/26/2018

NRS 391.019

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