Relates personal experiences during Student Produced Week at Channel One. Provides details of the application process. Describes the day-by-day itinerary, up to and including the actual production process. Lists hints for prospective applicants on available positions for Student Produced Week and how to fill out the application properly. (PA)

Describes an undergraduate clinical internship in a Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) doctoral program designed to help introduce undergraduates to the profession of family therapy. Coordinators feel that the most enjoyable part for the students and the most influential towards recruiting future MFT graduate students is the field study placement…

Briefly traces the history of psychology internship training to its central role in professional training in counseling psychology. Discusses current issues, including supply and demand, increased applicant costs, timing of internship, and escalation of practicum training hours, and outlines future considerations. Emphasizes training for the full…

Examines the state of training in the practice of supervision in doctoral programs and predoctoral internship sites accredited by the American Psychological Association. Results indicate that although a majority of programs and sites offer some type of opportunity for training in supervision, there are differences in the methods and extent of the…

Describes various ways scholastic journalism advisers have attempted to make real-world connections to boost their journalism programs: critiques of student publications by invited guest speakers (professional journalists); regional workshops where professionals offer short presentations; local media offering programming or special sections aimed…

Describes the curriculum and learning objectives at Academy X, a leadership and humanities school for 11th- and 12th-grade students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, the primary focus of which is a multiweek student internship divided into four components: the meaningful project, the essential question, the onsite…

Relates the stages a new intern goes through to become an "insider." Relates the socialization of newcomers to writing and editing internships. Suggests ways in which the socialization of interns can be improved through intervention from academic advisors and an active role on the part of the interns themselves. (SC)

The business education program in the Birdville Independent School District in Texas is half school-based and half work-based or internship. Seniors spend half of their day in a paid internship program for which they sometimes get college credit. (JOW)

To provide engineering faculty with professional development experiences, Penn State developed industry-sponsored internships in which faculty serve as engineers in small and medium-sized manufacturers. The process benefits both parties and identifies potential sites for student internships. (SK)

Describes college of education student internship or field experience programs and looks at how the process of observing the students has changed for the supervisor. Discusses how technological advancements have changed scheduling, note taking, communication, discussion, recording, follow-up, and other aspects of the process. (JOW)

This article presents a picture of how unique, varied and valuable the AECT intern experience can be. While some of the reflections are very broad and others very specific in focus, the authors have discussed as a group their shared conviction that these experiences are not limited only to the AECT interns. The possibilities for similar…

Family therapy master's-level students from CACREP-accredited programs are required to complete a calendar year clinical internship. Students are unprepared typically for these rigorous demands. The literature provides little information about these internship experiences. In this article, two master's-level marriage and family therapists…

This article describes an innovative school-to-work transition program incorporating identified best practices. Iowa's Super Senior program serves students in the "middle range" of the disability severity spectrum during the student's senior and 5th, or "Super Senior" year. The article describes the program elements, presents…

The role of technology has an increased emphasis in the PK-12 classroom and in the preparation of teachers. The wide support for the integration of technology in day-to-day instruction is evidenced at many levels and through many organizations. The current study focused on examining and describing the experiences of faculty and interns as they…

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) convened the "Symposium on Business and the Liberal Arts: Integrating Professional and Liberal Education" in Chicago in May 2007 out of concern that the proportion of students graduating with degrees in the liberal arts has been declining as preprofessional and technical programs have expanded and the…