The Successful Internship by H. Frederick Sweitzer, Mary A. King

By H. Frederick Sweitzer, Mary A. King

THE winning INTERNSHIP: own, specialist, AND CIVIC improvement, 4th version, provides you with greater than only a source for a way to discover a place or the right way to interview. It addresses the troubles, feelings, wishes, and specific own demanding situations which are the essence of an internship or box event, and makes a speciality of the internship as a motor vehicle in your improvement as a civic expert. The authors describe intimately the trail of switch you will find your self embarking on and the demanding situations you are going to face alongside the best way. A four-stage version of the internship process--anticipation, exploration, competence, and culmination--places the cloth in a significant framework that lends constitution for your knowing of the paintings you will be doing. to be had with InfoTrac pupil Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac.

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In a Barn Raising approach, everyone has a role and the group is essential. The group must be of a certain size, and the task can only be accomplished through cooperation and collaboration. As you think about your internship seminar and its goals, ask yourself, Where do they fit? Is the group really necessary, or is it only there for efficiency? We believe that the last two types, the Distinguished House Tour and the Barn Raising, are the most appropriate models for an internship seminar. Using the first of these two models, each intern can be given a chance to talk about his or her experience, or perhaps present a case.

But when learning is an active process, students are the centers of energy and the teacher’s role is to guide or facilitate your learning by taking an interest in your work and coaching you through the experience (Garvin, 1991). As an active participant in the learning process, you play the central role in shaping the content, direction, and pace of your learning. While being engaged is important in any learning process, it is especially important in an internship. Engagement as a stance toward or way of interacting with the internship experience is the lever for getting the most from an internship by turning experience into learning, empowering yourself as a learner, and being successful in your internship.

As you read them below and as you make your way through this book focusing on each of them, you’ve got yourself a high-impact internship in the making! • • • • • • Effortful with purposeful tasks requiring daily decisions Including quality feedback Opportunities to apply your learning Opportunities for reflection Building substantive relationships Engaging across differences A Few Basic Terms Although internships exist at many colleges and universities, different language is often used to describe the various aspects of the experience and the people associated with it.

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