Principal's Qualification Program Part 1

PQP Part 1 Course Content and Session Outline

Module A

Leadership Domain: Setting Directions

The principal builds a shared vision, identifies specific, shared short-term goals, creates high expectations and communicates the vision and goals to all stakeholders. 

Program expectations: Learners will be able to initiate, facilitate and manage change, and operate successfully in a dynamic environment that is characterized by increasing complexity

Module B

Leadership Domain: Building Relationships and Developing People

The principal provides support and demonstrates consideration for individual staff members, stimulates growth in the professional capacities of staff, models the school’s values and practices, builds trusting relationships with and among staff, students and parents and establishes productive working relationships with teacher federations representatives. 

Program expectations: build and sustain learning communities that support diversity and promote excellence, accountability, anti-racism, equity, partnerships and innovation; liaise with educational stakeholders concerning all aspects of provincial and district school board issues and initiatives.

Module C

Leadership Domain: Improving the Instructional Program

The principal staffs the instructional program, provides support, monitors progress in student learning and school improvement and buffers staff from distractions to their work.

Program expectations: align, develop and monitor programs, structures, processes, resources and staff to support student achievement.

Module D

Leadership Domain: Securing Accountability

The principal builds staff members’ sense of internal accountability and meets the demands for external accountability.

Program expectations: demonstrate accountability for the achievement of all students and promote student success and life long learning in partnership with staff, parents and the community

Module E

Leadership Domain: Developing the Organization to Support Desired Practices

The principal builds collaborative cultures and distributes leadership, structures the organization to facilitate collaboration, builds productive relationships with families and communities, connects the school to its wider environment, maintains a safe and healthy environment and allocates resources in support of the school’s vision and goals.

Program expectations: understand and apply education and student-related legislation in Ontario and district school board policies that have an impact on the school, students, staff and community; manage and direct the human, material, capital and technological resources for efficient and effective schools

A Practicum Proposal must be submitted and approved within 1 month from the end of the course in order for PQP Part 1 to be recommended to the OCT.

Please note: Effective January 2011, OISE MEd students in the Educational Leadership & Policy program who have successfully completed their PQP programs from OISE may use these as electives LHA1060 and/or LHA1061. Students wishing to pursue this optional route to fulfill one of the program requirements will be required to obtain the approval of Dr. Anna Katyn Chmielewski, Program Coordinator for Educational Leadership & Policy. Admission into the Principal Qualification Program is separate from the graduate program and is contingent upon the approval of to the Director, Continuing Education unit. For more information about the Educational Leadership & Policy program, formerly Educational Administration program, please refer to the OISE Bulletin.

1. Certificate of Qualification: Must be a registered member of the Ontario College of Teachers.

2. Qualifications in Intermediate division or Technological Education for Grades 9 and 10 and any two of:

• Primary division
• Junior division, and
• either Senior division or Technological Education for Grades 11 and 12

3. One of:

• 30 graduate post-secondary credits (master or doctorate). The graduate credits must have been in addition to those required for initial teacher education program.
• Two (2) Three Session Specialists, or Two (2) Honour Specialist Additional Qualifications, or a combination of both. 
• One (1) Three Session Specialist or Honour Specialist qualification and half of the requirements for a master's degree – a minimum of 15 graduate post-secondary credits (master or doctorate). The graduate credits must have been in addition to those required for initial teacher education program.

4. Certification of Teaching Experience (5 years)