Can a school psychologist become a prinicipal?

Question

I've read that prinicipals need teaching experience and since psychologists are not teachers in this setting would they be automatically be disqualified from prinicipal/administrative roles.

Answer 1

You need to ask this question within the context of where you live. Where I live in Washington DC you won't become a principal without a Master's degree in at least Education. You're more competitive if you also have a MAster's degree in Administration. Both of these Master's are easy academically but do take time.

My sister lives in Wyoming where's there's a shortage. You can become principal simply by pretty much volunteering for the job. She has a high school education and she was their Justice of the Peace for many years.

Answer 2

Maybe in some schools it's that way, but there is no written regulation against it. Suggested graduate programs for school administrators included educational psychology as well as teaching/education.

Here's an excerpt for Princeton Review's career profile for school administrators:
"Most beginning administrators have acquired related work experience-usually in teaching or management posts-and, as might be expected in an academic environment, they also have advanced degrees, including doctorates, in education or administration or a combination of the two. Recently, some schools have begun demanding that their applicants have an M.B.A. At the university-level, deans are, of course, expected to bring a rich academic and professional background to their jobs. As with many educational jobs in the U.S., applicants must have gone through a certification process (usually administered on the state level)."

Answer 3

To grew to develop right into a school psychologist you want to have your masters degree in education/counseling or a masters in psychology concentrating in toddlers. To get right into a masters software you want a 4 3 hundred and sixty 5 days college degree with the overall public of your preparation in counseling, education or psychology. The masters software will run from one to 2 years when you're an total time student and this alterations when you're analyzing section time. So it takes 5-6 years. good success.

Answer 4

You re all clueless. School psychs has a MINIMUM of a masters degree, usually higher. All they need is a quick administrative credential at the post-masters level. This question is more about politics. Will the teachers respect you because they believe you haven t been in their shoes, can the district appreciate the administrative and systems change experience you have, or do they mistakenly believe your skills are just in testing and placing kids?

Answer 5

You can with the right teaching credentials.....But consider the dynamic you are entering into with just as much (if not more) work you will have with making that kind of change. Why not consider going into your own practice?? A masters would probably take less time than would your teaching credentials. Just a thought for you.....Good luck

Answer 6

Good Grief, in the school system I grew up in, we had coaches teaching english, a band director teaching history and a P.E. teacher who eventually became a principle.

"I reckon I got a good educashion, but I don't not recomend that
a shrink be a prinsaple..cuz they ain't qaulified, I figures!"

Live on Great state of Texas!

Answer 7

Principals don't teach. All they do is sit on their @ss all day and make people like me feel bad when we go see them. Perfect job for a psychologist if you ask me.

Answer 8

yes. depends on the requirements set by the school