Your advisor can also help you navigate the permission and internship process.
How do my internship courses work?
For these courses, you will:
Create action plans.
Produce tangible products for an internship portfolio.
Write a self-reflective piece describing the experience of collaboratively implementing
programs that make a difference in schools (150-hour investment/internship).
Identify and analyze current practices affecting a school’s learning environment.
Interact with school administration to identify problem areas within the learning
environment.
Work collaboratively with parents, students, teachers and other community stakeholders
to create change within the learning environment.
Work collaboratively with other Education Administration students to share ideas and
experiences as well as sharing information concerning different learning contexts.
On-site cohort
Two of your on-site courses will require you to be in a cohort.
You will be encouraged to share ideas and test problems against a diverse audience.
In your cohort, you will:
Identify and analyze current practices affecting a school’s learning environment.
Interact with school administration to identify
For this course, you will:
Study and interact with community and state agencies, which have activities that affect
schools and their constituencies.
Collaborate with a variety of constituencies within the framework of their institution
and community.
Compare processes and procedures in your district with those of other communities
and institutions in an effort to address student and family needs that affect learning.
Apply best practices in several areas:
Identify and analyze services available through community health, social and other
related agencies.
Participate, through simulation, in solving selected community problems.
Work collaboratively with a community agency to address the social, health or emotional
needs of at least one student or family at the case level.
Write a self-reflective piece describing your experience of utilizing community services
to assist the learning environment.
Share your experiences with other Education Administration students in order to test
your ideas and plans against a diverse audience.
