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- The need for teachers is a nationwide.
We need quality teachers, and here in Clark County in Nevada,
in particular, we have high demand
for really strong teachers.
- Clark County needs great teachers,
and we need to go out there and get the hands-on practice.
And that's what Nevada State offers you.
- The difference with Nevada State
is that I took classes at elementary schools,
so my field observation hours were done at the schools I
was going to every single week.
So the luxury here is I think I was
at four or five elementary schools prior
to finishing my degree.
So the fact that I was able to have
a presence on these campuses and get, you know,
a feel for these kids and what they need, it was amazing.
- And there's a lot of flexibility with scheduling.
So if you are working full time, a lot of the courses
are offered either online or in the evening.
And then, the opposite is true if you
want to have more of those daytime classes,
you can have that opportunity as well.
- I really like the nighttime classes here,
because I may want to do something during the day
and kind of apply whatever I learned the night before.
- Another benefit of NSC is really just the instructors.
I think our expertise in different fields
really lends itself to a pretty well-rounded teacher
and student and really allows for opportunity
to get that expertise.
- The teachers at Nevada State college were wonderful.
They each had different teaching styles,
but you were able to pull something from each of them.
- The professors are different from other schools.
They seem to be more involved in our education.
If we have any questions, they replied to our emails
super quickly.
And they want us to know that if we ever need help,
even when we graduate, they're going to be there for us,
and they can assist you with anything we need.
- The faculty that I've met in the School of Education
have been very supportive, and they offer a lot of advice
on what to do next and how to move forward.
- This just feels like sort of more
of a family, atmosphere just smaller and more welcoming.
I would encourage anyone to give it a try.
And I think financially it's affordable.
- I live in a big city, but I've always kind
of yearn for a small town feel, and you kind of
have that small town feel with Nevada State College.
You know, small class sizes, and just the best professors
here in the School of Education.
- And because we are such a large district,
we know that our graduates may not
get the intensive support that they need,
so I also run the NEST program.
NEST is New Educators Support and Training.
It's unique to Nevada State graduates.
We get together once a month, and we just
talk about what's going on in their classrooms, what
are areas that we can support, and it's a safe place.
It's a place where they don't have to worry about judgment,
that they're all new teachers in the same boat.
- So the NEST program has been very beneficial to come to,
because it's helped us with the new NEPF framework
that new teachers, or any teacher
now needs to know in order to get their evaluations.
So they really went in depth at what
is necessary to be teaching and what your admin is looking for.
- With the NEST program you don't
feel like you've graduated and you're on your own.
You'll always have that support, whether it
be the smallest problem to the biggest
thing with making a lesson.
- I think a great aspect of NSC is, yes, you
can get your degree here, you can go back into the community
that you may be from, but then you're
also going to receive support from the place
that you graduated.
- The things that I really like about teaching
is seeing the growth of my students.
Especially in kindergarten, at the beginning of the year
they want to know whether they're going to take naps
and when is snack time, and not being
able to walk in a line to reading at the end of the year.
- I'm a first grade teacher at Halle Hewetson Elementary
School.
I grew up in this neighborhood.
I attended this school for third grade.
If somebody was coming into teaching, I would say do it.
At the end of the day, it really does pay off
when you just see the light bulb go on, and you really do see,
oh, he's getting it, he's learning it.
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