Internship
About the InternshipParticipants in SPA are required to complete a 450-hour internship during the intervening academic year. The specific details of that internship will be developed both prior to and during the initial summer term through advisement with program faculty and your school principal and will be documented in an official Internship Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The procedure by which your internship takes shape requires the collaboration of the participant, his/her supervising principal, an assigned leadership coach and program faculty.
Prior to the start of the program, each student will have pre-advising explaining the purpose and possible alternatives for an internship. At the beginning of the first 6 weeks of the program at Teachers College, each student must submit an initial draft memorandum of agreement detailing the structure of the internship, outlining how he/she proposes to complete the field work and related internship requirements (as outlined in the course description) over the intervening school year. This memorandum will be revised after consultation with the internship coach, school administrator and Teachers College Internship Faculty. The final version must be signed and dated by the intern, cooperating administrator, and the Teachers College intern supervisor for commencing the internship in September.
The completed memorandum of agreement describes the ELCC Standards-referenced work projects ("deliverables") that will be completed during the internship academic year. For each work project, the intern will describe how it will provide an opportunity to demonstrate competence with either ELCC Standards 1, 2 or 3.
In addition, the intern will describe how each project reflects the content of the courses taken to date. At the end of the internship students prepare a reflection on their field experiences. These two documents collectively are required to complete the internship. In addition to the above memorandum and analysis, students will be required to provide documentation of their internship experience during the intervening year, with appropriate endorsements from their internship supervisor in the field and at Teachers College. These procedures and requirements are specified in detail in the Summer Principal Academy's Internship Syllabus, to be distributed to admitted students in June. Failure to supply the required materials by the identified deadlines may negatively affect the student's certification by New York State.
5 Components of the Internship:
- Conduct teacher evaluations (3) on tenured teacher
- Principal shadowings (3)
- Implement a curriculum instructional project
- Conduct a resource allocation audit
- One additional project according to school’s/intern’s needs
