Online MA Education Admin gets licensed

Comes to me from Capella University the announcement that their "online Educational Administration graduate degree programs meet the educational component required for state licensure." Just like the teacher credential program at Rio Salado, this also qualifies under reciprocity agreements with many other states.

This type of certification would qualify someone to be a vice principal/principal or a district office administrator.

As you can well imagine, this will soon be showing up on the update site for "Bears' Guide to the Best Education Degrees by Distance Learning" at http://www.degree.net.


Tom Nixon

 

I got the same letter, Tom. I wondered, though, would getting such certification after finishing the program require that you were a licensed teacher already? It would seem so.

Rich Douglas

 

This would be dependent on each state. While it may be that Florida has a reciprocal agreement with Arizona, in Florida, it is still a requirement to have three successful years as a teacher before being hired for an administrative position.

Ted

 

Most (but not all) states have a requirement of a certain number of years of teaching before one can get the administrative credential. In California it is 3 years. That's a common amount.

For my money, I wouldn't want anyone to be an administrator who hadn't been a teacher first. There's too much that you learn as a teacher that you would need to know to be a successful administrator.


Tom Nixon