NCS TEACHER APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Earn your teaching certification while LIVING and WORKING in NELSON COUNTY
The Nelson County Schools offers Education Collab students and current district employees the opportunity to enter a certified educator apprenticeship. Through the apprenticeship program, future educators will be hired by the district and work as a student teacher while enrolled at Western Kentucky University. Here, we Unite People, Place and Purpose by Npowering lives and excavating gifts of our community members.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE NCS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
“It is a win for our state as we expand our homegrown pool of teachers and a win for students who continue earning a college degree while being able to start their teaching career two years earlier.” - KENTUCKY GOV ANDY BESHEAR
“This new apprenticeship program, providing a streamlined, faster pathway for high school students to become a teacher, is an excellent workforce tool that is a first for our state and a model for the nation ... It positions Kentucky as a leader in addressing the critical teacher shortage throughout our country.”
- EDUCATION AND LABOR CABINET SECRETARY JAMIE LINK
“Our country needs to seek new, innovative solutions to solve the teacher shortage and I’m proud to see Kentucky leading the way with the apprenticeship program in Nelson County.” - EDUCATION COMMISSIONER JASON E. GLASS
