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 2011-2012 Academic Year. If you entered this degree program before the Fall 2011 semester, please refer to the academic catalog for the year you began your degree program.
