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Education (M.S.) and Post-Graduate Certifications

Some of the region’s top academic administrators and teachers will share their skills and insights with you in this program, designed to help you take your teaching to a powerful new leadership level. Our post-graduate certification programs allow you to grow in your particular area of interest. 


The program continues the philosophy of graduate programs in education to develop competence in careers that balance practitioner-based instruction, and theoretical knowledge with rigorous application in professional practice. DelVal offers graduate students the opportunity to learn from some of the region's top academic administrators and teachers. In fact, 90% of our faculty are practitioner based. You will be taking courses from the people you work for or with, district by district.

DelVal can advance your teaching skills and expand your professional credentials in a format that allows you to maintain a career-personal life balance:

  • Accelerated seven-week, one night per week course schedule; six terms per year
  • Primarily online, some on-site options, synchronise 
  • Certified local educational professionals and Delaware Valley University instructors for all classes

Summer 2026 Courses for Educators – Register Now!

  • Most courses offered online
  • Special tuition rates for educators
  • Classes start May 18 and July 1

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Summer 2026 Courses

Theory and Application of Educational Administration

Reading Difficulties: Special Education and Intervention

Organizational Development, Change Theory and Staff Development

Instructional Leadership and Supervision

Teaching Math for Success in Today's Elementary Classroom

Positive Behavior & Social Skills in School

School-Community Relations

Design, Development and Assessment of Instruction

School Finance

Field Experience in Education. Leadership III

Action Research 1

Critical Thinking - Teaching Students to Become Critical Thinkers

Cooperative Learning in the Classroom

CSCGCS: School Year of the Sentence

Connecting Student Career Goals with Core Subjects: Marketing

CSCGCS: Smart Phones: Arts and Humanities

Leadership & Management of Special Ed

Language, Literacy & Acquisition

Connecting Students’ Career Goals with Core Subjects: Arts & Humanities

SIOP - Say What? What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol?

A woman is working with a child at a table with paper and crayons.
DelVal Awarded the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Accelerated Special Educator Certification Program Grant

Students will take courses taught by experienced special education professionals, offering best-practice instruction and current knowledge from their first-hand work in the field. 

This grant allows DelVal to provide:

  • A one-year 16-credit accelerated post-baccalaureate PK-12 special education teacher certification program (PA Level I Teacher Certificate)
  • Tuition scholarships to ensure affordability for students and school districts
  • Mentorship and instructional coaching for program participants
  • In partnership with Colonial Intermediate Unit 20
Contact
Dr. Victor Lesky, Associate Director of Graduate Admissions