I am interning at Memorial School in Union Beach.The school serves students from preschool through 8th grade and includes mainstream students, students with special needs, and students that need resource classrooms for extra help. Memorial school is located in a one square mile town, which happens to be a tight nit community.
I chose this site because I wanted to gain experience in a school setting. All of my volunteer hours were in a pediatric setting in a hospital working mainly with pediatric oncology patients. I wanted to gain experience with children in a different environment. Also, I chose a school setting because I am trying to decide if I would like to pursue getting my teaching certification or working with a child study team post graduation. I think that interning in a school setting will help me fully decide what I really want to do with my life.
After starting my internship, I can say that a strong area at my site is that they are extremely organized and have very good communication. All of the teachers communicate with the child study team and vice verse. Also, my site supervisor is very good! she encourages me to ask questions and learn and wants to help me achieve my goals. I do not really know of any areas in which the site is lacking. Funding sources for this site are state, federal and local funding.
I do not believe there is opportunity for full time work after graduation. The child study team is fully staffed as of right now, but you never know what may become available.
Megan, you made a great choice to intern somewhere completely different from your last volunteer experience. The more experience you gain in different fields the better sense you will get of what type of field is a better fit. I'm glad to hear everything is going well with your site supervisor, it seems like your off to a good start. Your assignment is complete, nice work.
ReplyDeleteMegan, please post your assignment 3 resume.
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