Benefits:<\/strong><\/p>\nBenefit to UAlabany<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Enhances attractiveness of UA academic programs.
\n\u2022 Increases the usefulness of the academic program.
\n\u2022 Helps the department maintain and grow enrollments.
\n\u2022 Creates a pool of more competitive applicants to the program.
\n\u2022 Keeps the program relevant in the face of changing teacher certification requirements.<\/p>\n
Benefit to Students:<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Provides a bridge between theory and practice, creating a significant opportunity to apply what they have learned in their program.
\n\u2022 Provides the opportunity to gain practical experience in the real world.
\n\u2022 Results in experience that can assist students with their employability after graduation.<\/p>\n
Benefit to SLN:<\/h3>\n
\u2022 Access to a resource for entry-level work, freeing professional staff for higher-level work and projects.
\n\u2022 We assist in the development of a cadre of graduates ready to for the entry-level workforce in ID positions (in SLN and SUNY wide).
\n\u2022 Gives us the opportunity to offer entry-level supervision and program management experiences to internal staff.
\n\u2022 Gives us the ability to enhance our services to campuses, by for example, providing us with an additional resource that can create instructional captivate and written documentation, or participate in QM\/course reviews.<\/p>\n
Logistics:<\/strong><\/p>\nInternship: 3-credits in the CDIT program.<\/p>\n
Hours\/timeframe\/location: 10 hours per week, with one day in the SLN office on the UAlbany semester calendar, August \u2013 December and January \u2013 May.<\/p>\n
Process:<\/strong>
\n-Short term: interns are nominated by UAlbany for participation in the program.
\n-Long term: a more competitive program can be developed where SLN develops specific objectives based on current SLN education needs where Interns apply for specific internship projects.<\/p>\nSLN internship program admin and mentor (supervisor): Dan Feinberg<\/p>\n
Physical location: SLN office, education unit.<\/p>\n
UAlbany contact: Peter Shea is the UAlbany internship admin and advisor, and SLN program liaison.<\/p>\n
The intern will:<\/strong>
\n1. Review SLN education current needs, projects and initiatives and propose learning objectives for the internship
\n2. Be required to keep an internship reflections blog documenting experiences and learning, and
\n3. Produce a final written report on lessons learned from the internship experience.
\n4. Provide suggestions to improve the internship program for SLN.
\n5. Produce a comment about the internship experience for the SLN internship webpage.<\/p>\nMetrics for UAlbany\u2019s success of the internship program will be:<\/strong>
\n1. The intern\u2019s self-assessment and written report.
\n2. SLN\u2019s report and satisfaction with the intern.
\n3. Increased interest in the program due to the internship opportunity (applicant self reports; increase in applications)
\n4. Interns report greater success in getting interviews and\/or getting hired due to completion of internship (intern self report)<\/p>\nMetrics for SLN\u2019s success of the internship program will be:<\/strong>
\n1. Intern\u2019s contribution to the education team.
\n2. Enhanced productivity of SLN education team (additional useful work is completed)
\n3. Increased ability to serve the needs of the campuses (because work is completed more efficiently or additional services can be provided, e.g. course reviews etc.)
\n4. Intern\u2019s, UAlbany, and staff satisfaction with the program.
\n5. Ease of supervision of the intern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Mike Fortune and our new internship program with the UAlbany ETAP Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,178],"tags":[40,59,67,89,132,166],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-sln-2","tag-cdit","tag-dan-feinberg","tag-etap","tag-internship","tag-peter-shea","tag-ualbany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}