Purpose
The major purpose of the CSUDH
professional level program is to
provide for support, mentoring
and assistance designed to
contribute to the success of the
new administrator. The emphasis
of the CSUDH professional level
preparation is to move the
administrator beyond the
functional aspects of performing
administrative service to
reflective thinking about his or
her role in providing an
environment for effective and
creative teaching, and student
success in learning. Each
candidate's professional
development at the professional
level is guided by an
individualized induction plan,
which is based on an assessment
of the new administrator's
needs. The plan includes a
mentoring component, and may
include both academic
requirements and other
requirements that could include
non-university activities.
The design of the program is
based on a sound rationale
informed by the principles of
various learning theories and
research aligned with the
curriculum content in CCTC’s
Standards of Quality and
Effectiveness for Administrative
Services Credential, January
2004. The program is designed to
provide extensive opportunities
for candidates to learn and
apply those theories and
includes both formative and
summative assessments.
Course syllabi are developed
using an agreed upon protocol
including clearly defined
learner outcomes, instructional
strategies determined by the
learner outcomes, formative and
summative assessments, resources
that support the learning
theory, and meaningful practice
and field experiences. The
program is designed to prepare
school leaders to confront
issues of equity, achievement
gaps, scarce resources, hard to
staff schools, and
underperforming teachers and
staff and to lead in ways that
positively impact teaching and
learning, school culture, and
community involvement.
Candidates may choose to
demonstrate competency in any of
the six CPSELs whenever they
judge their advance level of
competency has been obtained.
EAD 580: Professional Leadership
Pre-Assessment, Induction
