The professional field experience in educational leadership is designed to provide administration certification candidates with advanced level theory seminars and 120 hours of practical experience in a school setting during which the candidate will develop administrative competencies in curriculum development and the relation of curriculum to student achievement based on the standards recommended by the Interstate School Leaders License Consortium and the NJ/PA Departments of Education. The candidate will be supervised by an ESU faculty person and a field-based administrator. A portfolio is required at the completion of the course.