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