Saturday, May 28, 2011

First Internship Meeting

I met with David on Thursday before class to discuss my internship. I was really nervous because I did not want all of my planning and ideas to go to waste. As usual, I have planned too much and I think my ideas are just a bit too large if I am going to provide professional development and follow-up on the PD as well. The meeting was actually really helpful, and I am going to spend some time this weekend finishing up my internship proposal so that I can have both my principal and David sign off on it before the end of the school year.

I really want to get an interest survey out to the entire staff prior to leaving for the summer, but I do not know if that will still be possible or not. There is a TON to do before the end of the school year, and our department is packing up to move AGAIN this summer (yuck)!

The pre-internship portfolio is coming along, but I have felt myself get farther behind in my own deadlines now that we are in another class. I really like the new class, however, and I am excited that we are actually going to learn something new and useful. Here's to the last 17 days of school!

Monday, May 23, 2011

Proposal Draft #1

I wrote the first draft of my proposal this weekend. I am a bit nervous because I feel like maybe I should wait until after my meeting with David (my supervisor) in order to write it, but I wanted to be prepared to talk about my ideas for my internship. My principal is really on board with what I would like to do, so I am hoping that David likes it as well. Here's hoping for a positive meeting on Thursday!

It took me awhile to write the proposal, but I wanted to map it out on paper the best that I could so that I will (hopefully) only have some minor changes to make. I want to jump on board with this internship and get the staff involved; I would like to send out an interest survey prior to the end of the school year so that I can spend my summer preparing for the fall/winter.

On another note, I have been working on my pre-internship portfolio a bit. I have set up the website, collected most of my artifacts, and began writing my reflections. If you would like to see how it's going, click here.  Twenty-one more days of the school year!