Next internship class: Wednesday, March 12 (C-102)
Phase 1 data due on your blogs by March 12 class
Spring break: March 14-21
Keep weekly blogs of internship experience
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Internship Assignments and Structure of Class
Much thanks to Jinnie for gathering the information for this outline:
Phase 1: Securing a Site and Getting Oriented
• Document the mission (philosophy) and goals of the organization on your blog (if possible) or hard copy handed in-class. Material for this should come from mission and goals statements written by the organization, or in their absence, from interviews with staff members.
• Introduce yourself to the staff. Get to know not only their names but what they do. Briefly have them give an overview of their experience in the organization (does not have to be done all in one day). Ask them to reflect on how their duties help implement the mission and goals. This purpose of this section is to build rapport, and not to go into depth about their analysis of the organization.
• Connect with your supervisor and e-mail contact information to Professor Rubenstein. Discuss and write out your duties as an intern and post on blog. Discuss the goals of the class with your supervisor, and what you hope to learn about the organization (post a summary of this discussion on your blog). Give your supervisor the sample intern evaluation in the syllabus, and explain that they will be writing and evaluation of your internship experience and sending to Professor Rubenstein. This will be due the last week of class. (see Phase V)
Phase II: Writing about the Internship
• Keep fieldnotes for each internship session, and the end of the week, post a blog summary of your experience. In addition to “what you did,” also reflect on the experience: as Jinnie writes, “the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
• During this 6-8 week period you should be thinking about your final paper. We will discuss topics in class, but we have mentioned “case studies” of processes, or in-depth interviews with staff, Day/Week in the Life, themes such as “Discipline in a Day-Care Center,” and so on. The goal is to focus on an interesting aspect of your experience, and develop it in-depth. This paper will be due at the end of the term.
Phase III: The Final paper (4-5 pages)
• In the last 2-3 weeks of the term, we will meet to work out the structure of each paper, and you will spend that time writing up your results.
Phase IV: Evaluation of the Internship
• The final blog posting will be an overall evaluation of your internship using the criteria in the syllabus, and any other categories we develop in class. The goal here is to reflect on your experience in the organization, your role as an intern, and finally, as a “consultant,” to evaluate how the organization is meeting its mission and goals. You may make “recommendations” for improvement, but of course also point out what the organization is doing well
Phase V: Supervisor Evaluation of Intern
• Using the syllabus evaluation as a suggested template only, have your supervisor send an evaluation to Professor Rubenstein by email (Joe.Rubenstein@Stockton.edu) attachment.
Phase 1: Securing a Site and Getting Oriented
• Document the mission (philosophy) and goals of the organization on your blog (if possible) or hard copy handed in-class. Material for this should come from mission and goals statements written by the organization, or in their absence, from interviews with staff members.
• Introduce yourself to the staff. Get to know not only their names but what they do. Briefly have them give an overview of their experience in the organization (does not have to be done all in one day). Ask them to reflect on how their duties help implement the mission and goals. This purpose of this section is to build rapport, and not to go into depth about their analysis of the organization.
• Connect with your supervisor and e-mail contact information to Professor Rubenstein. Discuss and write out your duties as an intern and post on blog. Discuss the goals of the class with your supervisor, and what you hope to learn about the organization (post a summary of this discussion on your blog). Give your supervisor the sample intern evaluation in the syllabus, and explain that they will be writing and evaluation of your internship experience and sending to Professor Rubenstein. This will be due the last week of class. (see Phase V)
Phase II: Writing about the Internship
• Keep fieldnotes for each internship session, and the end of the week, post a blog summary of your experience. In addition to “what you did,” also reflect on the experience: as Jinnie writes, “the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
• During this 6-8 week period you should be thinking about your final paper. We will discuss topics in class, but we have mentioned “case studies” of processes, or in-depth interviews with staff, Day/Week in the Life, themes such as “Discipline in a Day-Care Center,” and so on. The goal is to focus on an interesting aspect of your experience, and develop it in-depth. This paper will be due at the end of the term.
Phase III: The Final paper (4-5 pages)
• In the last 2-3 weeks of the term, we will meet to work out the structure of each paper, and you will spend that time writing up your results.
Phase IV: Evaluation of the Internship
• The final blog posting will be an overall evaluation of your internship using the criteria in the syllabus, and any other categories we develop in class. The goal here is to reflect on your experience in the organization, your role as an intern, and finally, as a “consultant,” to evaluate how the organization is meeting its mission and goals. You may make “recommendations” for improvement, but of course also point out what the organization is doing well
Phase V: Supervisor Evaluation of Intern
• Using the syllabus evaluation as a suggested template only, have your supervisor send an evaluation to Professor Rubenstein by email (Joe.Rubenstein@Stockton.edu) attachment.
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