School Leadership
Master of Education
Delaware Administrative Certification Courses
Wilmington University courses approved for Delaware Certification Administrative:
Elementary School Principal/Assistant Principal
(also valid for Middle School Principal/Assistant Principal); or Secondary School Principal/Assistant Principal
MED 6490 
Education, Ethics, and the Law
MED 7201 Fiscal Operations and Resources
MED 7503 School and Community: Building a Shared Vision
MED 7701 Supervisory Leadership: Staff Selection, Appraisal, and Renewal
MED 7706 The Principalship, preK-8
OR MED 7707 The Principalship, 9-12
MED 7708 Curriculum Leadership
and, if not taken at the undergraduate level, a course in Child, Adolescent, or Human Development.
Delaware experience requirements for a School Principal or Assistant Principal certificate specify the following: "A minimum of 3 years of teaching experience at the level to be initially assigned as a school principal or assistant principal, except at the Middle Level, where teaching experience may be at any preK-12 level, or as a principal or assistant principal of a school for exceptional students, where the teaching experience must have been with one or more of the categories of exceptional children served by the school. Teaching experience means meeting students on a regularly scheduled basis, planning and delivering instruction, developing or preparing instructional materials, and evaluating student performance in any preK-12 setting."
This information applies to students who enter this degree program during the 2012-2013 Academic Year. If you entered this degree program before the Fall 2012 semester, please refer to the academic catalog for the year you began your degree program.
