Educational Administration
New! Metro Cohort! 2-year cohort program meets in Wauwatosa one night per week!
New! Revised Masters Degree in Educational Administration offers Director of Instruction and Principal's license in one 33-credit program.
Check out our newly launched Teacher Leadership Program!
New! Full Online Courses in Educational Administration offered every semester! Earn WI State Administrative Licenses through Online Course Work at UWM beginning in Spring 2008. Two courses will be offered each semester leading to DPI licensure as an Administrator.
The Department of Administrative Leadership is committed to the development of educational leaders, particularly for service in metropolitan areas. We believe that excellent educational leaders nurture leadership among others in the school community, create positive work environments for students, staff, and parents; and contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning.
Our leadership development program prepares leaders to be change agents; adept at creating and engaging teams of professionals, evaluating current conditions, understanding how complex systems work, instilling a shared vision, and creating learning communities with high standards for students.
The program takes a holistic, integrated and critical approach to administrator preparation. Each course, while placing particular emphasis on one standard and examining school leadership skills and traits relative to that standard, explores the complex interplay between the principles, practices and theories that inform the standards. Courses build upon each other, adding both depth and breadth to achieve proficiency in all of the standards. Students complete pre-practicum field assignments and field practicums in which they can practice the theories and principles addressed in the courses. Upon completion of the program of studies, students are required to submit an electronic portfolio that demonstrates their acquisition of the knowledge, skills and dispositions advocated in the UWM Core Guiding Principle and the UWM-WI State Standards for Education Administrators.
