Since our students perform their internship on campus in our clinic, we have them provide weekly reflections on their patient and clinical experiences along with the challenges they met and how they handled these situations. We then give feedback and discuss options for handling these issues in the future. This seems to be very helpful for our students

Our students work in our clinic 2-3 days every week during their time with us. This helps us work on professionalism weekly and identify issues quickly. I feel like internships are very important and helpful in the same way. The benefit of going out into the workforce to obtain this real world experience, is that you get to see and hear from another person how your student is performing. The contacts made and the networking is invaluable as well!

Supervising interns requires many different hats for the instructor. It is important for the instructor to support the student towards their goals. 

Something I need to add to my internship program is beginning expectations and more documentation. 

One of the most important parts of an internship is getting students out of the traditional classroom setting. I find it often helps students be more professional and rise to the standards that the workplace sets for them. 

Community and industry partnerships are essential as they play a huge role in the alignment of classroom education and real world career workforce requirements and applications.  CTE programs cannot be effective whatsoever without these partnerships.

As challenging as it is sometimes engaging students in the importance of CTE, likewise it is the same with parents. We need to continuously communicate the value of CTE programs and student opportunities available through them to parents and get them onboard early on in their children's education journey.  And then keep them involved as their student moves forward in the educational progression.

This section of the course reaffirms much of what our district is engaged in relative to CTE priorities/activities.    

The school-parent relationship is vital to the success of a strong WBL program.  Parents are the conduit to so many educational opportunities for students, especially in CTE. 

Assessing the students' internship experiences to be sure all learning objectives are being met and the on site supervisor is comfortable with the student interns' performance is necessary for a successful WBL experience and student  preparation of entering the workforce.