Internship Plan Review



Dr. Joan Bowman, Asst. Supt of Instructional Services 

I met with Dr. Joan Bowman on September 21, 2011 at 8:30 a.m. in her office. We reviewed the Skill/Knowledge chart and then looked over my internship plan. Dr. Bowman was complimentary about the internship plan. She felt that it covered the competencies well.  She liked the activity that focused on conducting a capacity study, but felt it was too verbose. We reworded it to make it more to the point. She also liked the activities about Strategic Planning and conflict resolution. I thought I was going to end the conference without making any further changes. However, that was not the case. Dr. Bowman felt that a few of the items needed to be strengthened. 

The first activity that we changed was Activity 24d. Dr. Bowman did not feel that it was challenging enough. We changed it from creating and following a requisition to the following:

‘Submit the Memorandum of Understanding with JJAEP to the school board for approval.  Then complete the request for an open purchase order from the budgeted account. A copy of the Memorandum of Understanding, School Board recommendation, the purchase order and a brief description of the path it follows for approval is to be included in the notebook.”

The second activity that was changed was 22a. This activity had focused on interviewing the Director of Child Nutrition. Dr. Bowman changed this activity to read:

“Facilitate the district’s School Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) in the development of an updated FFA (Local) policy in regards to child nutrition and school wellness.”

Lastly, activity 15c was changed to be more comprehensive. It now reads:

Develop a Corrective Action Plan to address Homebound attendance accounting concerns during the 2088-2009 school year. A copy of the Corrective Action Plan submitted to TEA will be filed in the notebook.

We did not add any additional activities to the plan.  I was glad to have had an opportunity to sit down with Dr. Bowman and review the plan. I think the changes we made are positive and will add to my experience.

Internship Plan Revisions



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After reading the comments, I realized that many people liked the intern plan I had posted. The comments were very positive. One comment read” What I like about your internship plan is how organized it looked on your wiki.”   However, I looked a little deeper into the comments that were posted from the vita and the intern plan and felt that I had not gone far enough. After looking at someone’s comment about special populations I decided to change one activity from attending an ARD meeting to attending a 504 meeting. This population is often overlooked and I felt it was in my interest to see how this program is currently being implemented.

 The next revision I made was to include the review of three teacher screeners. I had originally planned on interviewing the Executive Director of Personnel but after looking at some comments decided a change was in order. Our district is currently investigating the use of Teacher screeners prior to interviewing candidates. I felt that it was important to include this in my intern plan.

The next change I made was to the activity regarding strategic planning. I changed it from participate in the process to lead the process. I serve as the internal coordinator of strategic planning within our school district. I thought it was important to denote this.

The last change that I made was to delete the interview with the Director of Maintenance. One of the comments that were made forced me to reflect on whether or not I was actually stepping out of my comfort zone. Upon reviewing my internship plan, I felt that I needed to push a little further in regards to facilities. Therefore I will conduct a capacity study of the district’s facilities in order to ascertain when we need to consider adding additional facilities. This is a process we completed approximately six years ago and it now needs to be revisited.

In order to allow my Site Supervisor the opportunity to view the internship plan, I emailed her a link to the wiki where she may view it and make comments prior to our meeting.  I thought about just emailing it to them, but thought if we have the technology why not use it. I followed up by phone with her to verify that she had received the invitation to my wiki and she confirmed she had. I also gave her a hard copy when I met with her later in the week.  My Internship Plan may be viewed at :  http://jrwebster.wikispaces.com/Internship+Plan