Principal Standard EC-12 Certificate
For Students Holding A Master’s Degree

1The principal certificate plan consists of 27 hours of graduate course work. Requirements for the plan are completion of the Administration Core (24 hours) and the Capstone Experience/Graduate Internship (3 hours). Students will be eligible to register for Graduate Internship after they have successfully completed at least 18 hours of the plan. Students are reminded that the Graduate Internship is only offered in the fall and spring semesters. An internship application form must be completed and submitted by June 8 for fall semester and October 1 for spring semester in order to enroll in ADSU 6739. In order to fulfill principal certification requirements, students must successfully complete the 27 hours of course work, have a valid Texas Teaching Certificate, two years of successful full-time classroom teaching in an approved accredited school and must pass the Principal State Assessment.
Administration Core (24 hours):
ADSU 6030	ADSU 6132	ADSU 6233	ADSU 6235
ADSU 6436	ADSU 6437	ADSU 6533	ADSU 6638

Capstone Experience (3 hours):
ADSU 6739 ¹

¹ Internship application form must be completed and submitted by June 8 for fall semester and October 1 for spring semester in order to enroll in ADSU 6739. Students will be eligible to register for ADSU 6739 after they have completed at least 18 hours of the certificate.