NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06C .0364
Plain English summary
This regulation establishes the criteria for counting teaching and non-teaching experience toward salary credit on an educator license in North Carolina. Educators must work at least 15 hours per week for experience to qualify, with specific rules for combining partial-year experience, college teaching hours, and non-teaching roles such as tutoring or substitute teaching. Full-time is defined as 30 hours per week and part-time as at least 15 hours per week.
Key requirements
- An educator must work for at least 15 hours per week in order for the experience to be considered for receiving teaching experience on an educator license in a local education agency (LEA) on a prorated basis.
- An educator in an LEA or college may combine full-time experience of less than six calendar months in one fiscal year with another fiscal year of part-time or full-time experience to equal one year of experience credit.
- An educator may receive teaching experience on their license for college teaching based on the number of clock hours spent in the classroom teaching per week.
- Six class hours per week shall be considered half-time teaching and twelve class hours per week shall be considered full-time teaching.
- With a recommendation from the employing LEA, an educator may establish non-teaching experience working as a tutor, clerical paraprofessional, or substitute teacher.
- For purposes of this Rule, 'full-time' means 30 hours of work per week and 'part-time' means at least 15 hours of work per week.
Affected parties
- NC educators seeking salary experience credit
- Local education agencies (LEAs)
- College instructors seeking teaching experience credit
- Tutors, clerical paraprofessionals, and substitute teachers
- NC Department of Public Instruction