
EDIT 7460: Internship in School
Media Services
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Last worked on: 2-3-2010
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February
6,
2010
10a-12, Room 118
http://cns.utexas.edu/images/stories/careers/resume.jpg
Preparation: Read Chapter 2 in your
text -
"Getting the Job"
Business
- Hand in POS, other material - get receipt
- For a handwritten thank-you card sent to your mentor, post
his/her mailing address on your discussion board
Final
Contracts:
- Registered this semester:
- Final contracts due Feb 16
- Documentation due May 2
- Summer semester:
- First approval: Apr 27
- Submit prelim contract: May 4
- Don't do too many hours prior to final contract approval!
20 hour limit!
Job Matters
- Points from the reading
- The TeachGeorgia
site
- References: who? how? | MAF's
letter-writing policy
- The ways in to a
school
system
- Job-seekers' tools: cover letters, resumes, portfolio
- I want a job! What should I be doing now?
- If you have an SLMS job, we will ask you to talk about how
you
got
it.
- What kinds of questions will be asked at interviews?
- What questions should you
ask at inverviews?
Don't let the Portfolio (M.Ed. |
Ed.S) sneak up on you
-
questions?
Stories from the field
Q&A, Discussion
|
Sarah's
Super Notes for this meeting
Class
Cancellation Procedure (for any reason)
- Backup plan will be to have a live class over Wimba, during the
regularly
scheduled time
- Do we still have a phone tree?
- Make sure I have your preferred phone numbers.
- After making a decision, I will first email instructions over
SLM-L and the Blog and on the Agenda(s)
- I will ask, as part of these instructions, for each person to
"check in," on a GoogleDoc (instructions will be provided).
- Then, I will go after the leftover people, perhaps recruiting
assistance if it's more than 2 or 3 people.
- Use common sense - if weather is strange, gas prices go berserk,
etc. - watch for news. Do not depend on UGA to provide the
info. While I can't have class if UGA Gwinnett is closed, I can
independently decide to cancel the f2f and have an online
meeting. I will try to make the best possible decision, given
everyone's situation.
- Finally, I'll identify a "deputy" to set this up in my stead, in
case I can't get to the Internet.
March 13, 2010
10a-12n
Dr. Clinton coming for Stadium Advisement
Greetings
Agenda overview
Stadium Advising
- Focus on Summer 09 courses
- Dr. Clinton will be here at ??
Q&A - General
Internship Matters
Checklist
review
Clear on due dates for
documentation? (May 2!)
Marathon Matters
*Midterm
(online)
Peer Group Sharing/Individual Conferencing
Portfolio Matters
Graduation Matters
Job news
If time:
How do I prepare for my first year on the job?
What tasks must I finish first -- how do I begin the year?
Howard, S. (2004). Tips for new
librarians.
Library Media
Connection, 23(3), 17. [Available fulltext in GALILEO)
Portfolio development - p.144
Pizza or other type of party next time? Organizer volunteer?
April 17, 2010
10a.m. - 12 or so

Last
Official
Meeting
of
Cohort
8
Greetings
Bookstore open for last minute cap/gown
orders (?*)
Business
Q&A
Course
evaluations : available *
- Caution about the form confusion
- I will pester you till 100% complete!
Dropboxes are ready
How I will provide internship feedback
Peer Group Sharing/Individual Conferencing
Discuss: How can we make the Internship a
better
learning experience without significantly increasing the workload?
Questions regarding portfolios: SLM
Portfolio
Management
Page | SLM
Portfolio
Page
Graduation Preparation!
- plans for group photo
- proper attire: see
photos
- Alma Mater (so that Graduation won't be the first time you have
ever heard/seen this!)
Certification
Looking ahead and Summer Schedule
(see Calendars: *C8
| SLM)
*Summer intern deadlines (links to checklist, anchor)
Summer Marathon: need your feedback:
Job news?
Take a Group Picture
Party!
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September 19, 2009
11am-12noon
for Cohort 8 Interns, active interns, and others
planning to intern
during 08-09
Agenda
Syllabus and Contracts
read them all,
then pass the test!
Checklist: based on Step-by-step Instructions
(from the Syllabus)
3 approvals: Logistics,
Preliminary, and Final
Your deadlines
Caution about turn-around time:
Allow plenty of time. I can only work
so fast. The more meticulous you are with your paperwork, the
less time it will take.
Site
Selection Criteria - most have
accomplished this
- System approval, if required (definitely in Gwinnett, Fulton,
Fayette, Forsyth, and
others). System administrators have ultimate power over where you
intern.
- Qualified, willing media specialist
- Inspiring and/or admirable program; program should be good
representative of the field
- Majority of hours must occur when students potentially present.
That is: only a small fraction of your internship may be after or
before school hours, during staff planning days, and during the summer
when students are not in attendance. Whether students actually visit
the media center while you're there is not under your control.
- Your own school: we recommend against
placement in your own school.
- Logistics: you are the only judge of this; I can't place you
against your will. That's why we allow maximum flexibility in time.
However, this aspect of the internship will probably be a challenge for
most people, resulting in short-term sacrifices.
- Administrative approval(s)- host principal and your own principal
(if applicable)
- Diversity: if you have no experience with diversity in your
professional portfolio, you must gain it in the internship. These are
documented through the demographic form(s).
Registration
- Check the Calendar
for semester-related deadlines
- Plan to register for EDIT 7460 in the last semester of on-site
work. In other words, register in the semester in which you know
you will finish all components.
- Register for the section under my name.
- Register for 3 hours.
- You should be registered for something
in each semester of intern work.
Required
Components (from Final
Contract)
Project
Collaborative planning
Media or Technology Committee meeting
Grade level or department meeting
Information literacy component
Assist individual students
Large group session in collaboration
Peer sharing
Professional conference
Administrative
Miscellaneous
Other site visits
Hours: 120 total; at least 100 must be on-site
Documentation
There may be other elements in the documents -- read them carefully!
Balance of hours -- I am looking for
reasonable
distribution
of
time
over these tasks. As you do the work, the hours allotted will
shift somewhat. How many hours per element? Check the
Internship Elements resource.
Overlap of tasks: expected; recommended!
Innovative scheduling
strategies
Differential holidays -- especially
spring break
Different systems with differing calendars
Planning time - caution! Don't violate employee rules, which vary
from system to system.
Role-swapping with your own class (keeping learners' best interests in
mind at all times)
Mix-and-match approach
Evening possibilities
Summer school
Spreading experience out over time
If you don't work in a school: vacation; evenings; flex time; business
people have steep challenges, but somehow have complained least in my
experience.
How definite must you really be
in your proposal?
A few cautions
- It is legally dangerous for you to perform intern work outside of
the parameters of an approved contract. Therefore, I inspect
start dates carefully; they may not pre-date the approval! All
responsible parties (administration, especially) must be completely
aware of what you're doing. They have all rights of refusal.
- Enroll in professional liability insurance. Policies are
provided by professional teachers' associations, the state, and perhaps
private insurers.
- Learn the norms, rules, and laws that apply to your host
school. Dress in a similar way as the professionals you see
on-site. Follow subtle codes of conduct, such as calling adults
by last names ("Mrs. Smith") in the presence of students. Ask how
your mentor deals with food, drink, gum, etc., and follow suit. There
will be other examples. Schools have widely different rules, and
you shouldn't break rules that students are expected to follow.
- Be careful when touching students. Safest: don't.
- If you find yourself as the only adult in the presence of
students, don't leave them unattended. Ask that this not happen
much, because if something were to happen the legally responsible party
would be ambiguous.
- Find out what student misbehaviors must be reported. These will
be rare serious offences such as violence, weapons, etc. Learn what you
must do according to school and system policies. You should not
be put in the position of having to deal with these things as an
intern. Still, if an emergency should arise, you must know what
to do in that moment.
- Do not use sick time to free yourself up for internship work.
- If you run into trouble of any kind, let me know.
Documentation: a peek ahead
- WebCT goes dark in January and I don't know what I'm going to do
- ELC may not be a good candidate for this task. Stay tuned. I may
ask you to transfer your data from WebCT to the new system, whatever it
will be. (Needs: good discussion
board,
reliable notifications,
ability to open multiple windows)
- Any references to "tags" on this website are
outdated - let me know if you find any.
- When to do what? The Checklist
helps with this.
- Start with the Internship
Documentation Cover Sheet - a Word document that you will be able
to edit. It connects all the chunks together. The chunks, in the
order you should work on them, are:
- Cover sheet itself, which lists all the elements (and the
various components of the internship experience, like the project, etc.)
- Journal/log (GoogleDoc)
- Time Account Table. For a long time, you will deal just with
these pieces. The final things to produce are:
- Mentor evaluation
- Highlight slides
- Final reflection
Keep the
Rubric on hand every step of the
way - it's the qualitative companion of each element.
Words of wisdom from active interns
Your questions
Keep in Mind:
- CBCs (see Criminal
Background Checks)
- Be careful about obligated time - do not violate your job
expectations! (See System Specifics, in WebCT)
- C8 Blog as a group
communication avenue
- Rubric indicates required competencies and quality of work
expected. It will be the ultimate evaluation tool; you should
begin and end with the rubric.
- The Internship
Documentation Cover Sheet. Described below. Tags are gone.
This section updated 9-22-09
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For Cohort 8
April 25, 2009
Spring
Overview at end of First Year
Overview of the Internship
- Meeting pattern: orientation in Spring
of Y1; September meeting; 2-hour meetings in Spring of internship year
- Time
frame: in your overall program; fitting in with working schedules
(a FAQ). Checklist is the best
timeline overview.
- Checklist
- Begin by understanding the Syllabus thoroughly, and the connected
contracts. You must pass a "test" on these before your Prelim
Contract is accepted.
- Three essential pieces: First approval
(site and mentor); Preliminary Contract; Final Contract.
- It's a great idea to work through Steps
1 thru 3 of the Checklist in May of your first year.
- If possible, send the results of Step 3
to me as soon as you can. Gwinnett interns must send this
specific info to me by approximately May 15.
- Myid login (only, not password)
- Your PSC number (if you have one)
- Internship timeframe: when you plan
to start hours, when you plan to finish hours, and when you plan to
register for EDIT 7460
- School system where you plan to intern
- Your employer (for the internship
year) and job title
- Your preferred placement level: elem,
middle, or high
- WebCT as the management system for the
internship; challenge for C8 will be shift to eLC
- Deadlines: see checklist.
While most people finish in spring, the deadlines are really dependent
upon the semester you register for the internship. However, most
people can't accomplish everything in one semester.
- Please avoid
these Major Intern Booboos:
- working in a school without
administrative approval - legal jeopardy for all of us!
- racking up hours that won't count
because you haven't had your contract vetted
- expecting/needing instant or rapid
approval of contract submissions - we need 2 weeks!
- misusing your contracted time,
including sick leave
- Discussion Boards in WebCT as where we
centralize all communication - will be private
- Heads up! Criminal
background
checks are required. If you intern in your own system and are
employed to work with children, the College assumes that you are exempt
from this requirement. You will be responsible
for obtaining this, if it is necessary.
MAF's pet peeve: Please, please,
please do NOT
submit a contract the day before you expect to begin work!! I
need 2 weeks to work on it, and it's likely I will ask for revisions.
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January
23,
2010
10:00 - 12:00
Room 118
Sarah's
Super Notes for this meeting
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Housekeeping:
- Permissions:
Please
fill
out
anew
each semester.
- Marathon: who?
Greetings, Re-introductions
Contracts: Everybody must have one
approved before
intern
hours begin.
- how to track your progress; using the discussion board
Use of time:
- How is that going?
- Caution against constant shelving, etc. However,
doing something is better
than just
observing all the time, although you will want to observe some.
Be helpful, don't get in the way, have a project in hand.
The Journal (GoogleDoc): do this
from your
first active day
Communication
Channels:
- Anything related to your internship should be posted on
your
private discussion board in eLC. This is the chief way of
keeping track of details and agreements.
- From you to instructional team:
- maryannfitz at gmail.com
- Skype (IM and free VOIP)
- call me (6598): no hour too early, I go to bed around
10p,
don't hesitate to call because I use my answering machine
- use my cell (1241), but I'm bad at forgetting to carry
it, etc.
- office: 706-542-4110 (someone will answer and eventually
relay
to me - might help on days when I'm in Athens)
- Often on the road/in meetings on Friday. Teach every
Saturday,
and Sunday is for family. So there is often a lapse of communication
over the weekend. Phone is best, in case of emergency.
- From me to all of you:
- I will use SLM-L for "drop-dead" messages
- Cohort8 blog
for
most other things - subscribe to it via RSS
- Between you (and me too, if you want):
Good Intern Documentation - see below
Q&A
Feel free to suggest topics for this
and
future
meetings.
Peer Sharing
Graduation
Documentation
guidelines:
- Keep a running story of what you do in your Journal
(GoogleDoc). Also account for your time in the Time Account
Table. I will check in on this from time to time.
- Include diversity information and
interactions. Address ethnic diversity specifically.
- Begin by reading the Rubric.
Your
package
will
contain
your
a Report (a single document containing
Cover Sheet, Rubric, and Reflection), your Journal URL, and a
Presentation.
- The Cover Sheet
is
the best place to find a succinct listing and description of internship
documentation components.
- The Report should cover, in briefest possible terms, the
components required by the Rubric. Organize as indicated within the
Cover Sheet. It may "point" to specific dates in the Journal. You
should not duplicate large journal sections in the Report.
- The Cover Sheet helps to pinpoint competency
accomplishment. Fill it out as indicated, paying attention to the
word counts.
- The Presentation will not actually be presented. It
should be
fully self explanatory as a stand-alone artifact. This is your chance
to "brag" about the highlights of your internship, possibly with
photographs, scans of student work samples, etc. Keep it under 10
slides, as a rule of thumb.
- Reflection: brief. Instructions are on the Cover
Sheet.
- Students who are not yet certified as teachers must also
provide the Teaching Qualification elements, as agreed in your Contract.
- Level of detail: in the journal, a middle path; in the
Report, as
brief as possible. In general, a minute-by-minute description to
overkill. However, there may be times when you want to tell a
true story, in detail, in your Journal.
- It's ok to reflect in your journal; there's a section for a
final
reflection on the Cover Sheet.
- Things to pay attention to: problems and
what you
do about them (whether successful or not!); questions; interactions
with
peers; things that make you feel good.
- Address AASL candidate competencies as requested on the
Cover
Sheet: see AASL
Standards
for
SLMS
Preparation. These are the competencies you are
supposed to have as you finish your program. Reflect on them, and
address
as many as you can in your Documentation. We will look
aggressively for the required components spelled out in your contract,
and we will not painstakingly look for each competency listed on the
Rubric.
- Do not post your documentation on your
Assignment
Page or make it public in any way. Also, use
pseudonyms throughout. Yes, I can easily figure out "who" you're
talking about; but I read so many that I won't do that unless
there
is a very good reason to do so.
- Include student work if at all possible; you can quote
excerpts
in your Journal, or provide scans in your Presentation.
- We must prove
candidate competency in teaching. I feel confident that most of
our students meet this requirement. If you are a certified teacher,
your certificate is
"proof." For those who are not, provide the documentation listed in the
contract, in addition to all other elements.
- Make sure you define each Competency as it is described in
the
Rubric.
- One successful intern suggested: perhaps emails can be used
as
journal entries. Some of us do record our lives in emails.
If you
carefully organize them so that they tell a story (and leave out excess
baggage), these can comprise parts of your journal. In other
words, why write it twice? Make sure you have permission to use
response emails. Paste them directly into the GoogleDoc.
- We will no longer use eLC dropboxes. I am switching
over to a Google-form based dropbox system. If you need to submit
something while I'm developing this, either post it to your discussion
board, or email it to me. (Make sure I acknowledge!)
|
Deadlines
follow this pattern: for the semester registered
Will post to the Calendar
at least a semester in advance*
Do your "Test" on contract/syllabus/FAQs (in eLC)
Must have initial approval by first day of session
Prelim contract approved by end of drop/add
Final contract signed/approved 3 days before midterm
Documentation due on/around 5/1, 12/1, or 7/25
Why? Will explain reasons behind all of these.
Summer is the most treacherous time to try to finish an internship.
Consequences for missing deadlines: administrative drop from class -
equivalent to a 'no-show'
Using the discussion boards
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Spring
Overview for end of First Year
Overview of the Internship
- Time
frame: in your overall program; fitting in with working schedules
(a FAQ)
- First step: understand the Syllabus thoroughly, and the connected
contracts. You must pass a "test" on these before your Prelim
Contract is accepted.
- Three essential pieces: First approval
(site and mentor); Preliminary Contract; Final Contract.
- Please avoid the Three Major Intern Booboos:
- working in a school without
administrative approval - legal jeopardy for all of us!
- racking up hours that won't count
because you haven't had your contract vetted
- expecting/needing instant or rapid
approval of contract submissions - we need 2 weeks!
- Fall
08
timeline
(for registered interns); timeline will be similar for subsequent
semesters.
- Discussion Boards in WebCT as where we
centralize all communication - will be private
- Heads up! Criminal
background
checks will likely soon be required (not yet, unless
specifically required by your school). You will be responsible
for obtaining this, if it becomes necessary.
Please, please, please do NOT
submit a contract the day before you expect to begin work!! I
need up to 2 weeks to work on them!
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