Superintendent Endorsement
Type 75 Certification
with Superintendent Endorsement - 30 hours
Described below are the courses required for the Superintendent Endorsement attached to a Type 75 Certificate. The 30 semester hours of credit listed below must be beyond the master's degree level.
Admission Requirements
- Have a regionally accredited master’s degree.
- Have a Type 75 General Administrative Certificate.
- Have a minimum graduate GPA of 3.50.
- Have a minimum of two years of supervisory or administrative experience in a school.
- Supply evidence that the Illinois Test of Basic Skills has recently been passed.
Areas of Study for Superintendent Endorsement
- Governance of Public Schools (6 hours)
- EDL-7210 Policy Analysis
- EDL-7100 The Superintendency
- Management of Public Schools (9 hours)
- EDL-7220 Human Resource Administration and Bargaining
- EDL-7240 Supervisory Theory and Practice
- EDL-7230 Educational Finance
- Educational Planning (6 hours)
- EDL-7140 Organizational Change
- EDL-7120 Research-based Decision Making
- Departmental Electives - Select 2 (6 hours)
(One of these must be an ethics course if an ethics course was not taken previously at the master’s degree level) - EDL-6300 Ethics of School Leadership
or
THY-6400 Christian in Society - EDU-7100 Curriculum Theory and Design
- EDL-6250 Special Education Law and Policy
- EDL-7110 Strategies of Educational Leadership
- Clinical Experience - 3 hours
- EDL-7891 Professional Career Training-Superintendent Track
- The candidate completes an internship leading to an analytical research paper on a policy problem selected before the candidate is placed and agreed on by the candidate's advisor, the director of the specialization, and the cooperating school/district central office.
- Portfolio Capstone
- Consult the Department of Leadership’s Superintendent Endorsement Program Handbook
