Creating Useful Forms and Processes | Origin: ED207
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Outside the Classroom: Experiential Learning --> Creating Useful Forms and Processes
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It is essential to ensure that the documentation is completed and that the students perform the assigned task.
It is important to conduct pre-internship communication to understand the process and to complete all required documentation.
It is important for the on-campus internship supervisor to have an open line of communication with both the intern and the employing supervisor. Although limitations on time and travel make it difficult to conduct regular on-site visits, efforts should be taken to ensure that expectations for the experience are being satisfactorily met.
Documentation is a great way to record your thoughts and feelings. It's also a wise way to define expectations, rules, and terms.
Reflecting on this gathered information should evolve the internship experience to something all parties benefit.
A contract must be formed in order to provide to intern and Supervisor with expectations
Internship supervisors play a significant role for the intern; they should clearly understand the supervisor's and the intern's responsibilities. Most importantly, they should identify professional-level duties and tasks of significant quality and quantity and clearly delineate the relationship of the internship to the educational program.
Documentation from beginning to end help the intern connect the learning objectives laid out to them by the academic institution as well as the potential hiring spot. Reflection and evaluation is at the heart of this as the intern concludes their experience. Hopefully, this will lead to a possible position within the company.
Comment on Georgiana Bougher's post: As the students emerge and exit the internship there should be adequate follow up and feed back to assure the sites are giving the student the utmost learning opportunities.
Students should sign a contract that includes their responsibilities. It's important for students to keep a journal of their learning experience and reflections. Students should be evaluated at the end of the internship and provided with feedback.
It is important to have the intern fill out a contract agreement that reflects the policies of the program and go over job respsonbilities before they begin to intern. During their intertership, it would be helpful for the student/intern to keep a weekly journal and keep good communication with their teacher and inter supervisor. After their internship is complete, the intern should write a paper regarding their experiences.
I learned that before a student can start their internship proper documents and forms must be signed.
I've learned that structured internship agreements and clear communication are essential for a successful internship program. As a teacher, I plan to apply this by helping students to create detailed internship contracts and by encouraging regular reflection through journals. This will help students combine classroom knowledge with real-world skills and enhance their career readiness.
Understanding the rewards from the process and how it lends itself to a fuller and happier work environment.
The reflection aspect is something that I already do with my interns, but the question of how could internship improve would be interesting to propose.
I have managed nurse intern and externships for over 20 years. It is important to outline the requirements, limitations, and expectations with the student, precpetor and organization with each and every profram start. Internship contracts should specify on-site job responsibilities and learning objectives of students. A special session to address these should take place before beginning the internship and it should serve as a clear starting-point for both the intern site and the interns.
It's very important to have students and business partners sign contracts and agreements so that students can feel like they are being held accountable to engaged in the process.
It is important for the institution to know what the student is gaining from their internship and to follow up as necessary.
Post-internship feedback is important to ensure that all objectives are met and the program has been effective from the student's point of view as well as the employer's.
The Final self evaluation helps the student to identify the goals they achieve.
