Studies changes in the motivation of senior student teachers to teach in an urban setting during their student teaching internship in an urban public school. Findings with 38 teacher candidates indicate that motivation to teach in an urban setting was strengthened during student teaching. (SLD)

Outlines key factors doctoral students need to consider when selecting a marriage and family therapy (MFT) internship site, including quality and type of supervision, clinical caseload and type of clients, additional training opportunities, professional contacts and social support, and the effects of the board of directors on the internship…

Intending to organize a somewhat traditional teacher training program, a high school in Bellmore, New York, partnered with Adelphi University's School of Education and created an innovative program that provides student teachers with a paid, on-the-job internship beyond the 10-week student teaching period. (MLH)

Interviews with 30 vocational-industrial teachers certified through Program VITAL (Vocational Intern Teaching that is Applied Learning) and 29 others showed that VITAL participants devoted more time and effort to critical review and analysis of their teaching and their classes' performance. Beginning teachers particularly were more reflective than…

Explains the Academic Library Management Intern Program, which was developed and sponsored by the Council on Library Resources (CLR), and presents excerpts from interviews with librarians who successfully completed the program and with host library directors. Issues addressed include skills learned during the internship and changes in career…

Career-technical education may be informal on-the-job training, organized workplace education, community college or technical institute programs, or apprenticeships, internships, and cooperative agreements. Another alternative is polytechnical education: providing technical and general studies for adults in existing school facilities after school…

Describes a high school publications advisor's month-long internship at the Louisville "Courier-Journal" and how the experience shed light on her work as an advisor. (SR)

Seventy-four percent of 145 deans of collegiate business schools surveyed have internship programs. They identified many advantages and benefits as well as problems such as extra time for program completion. Interns benefited companies by completing special projects, and internships served as recruiting tools and forged stronger relationships with…

The Integrative Processing Model guides students in thinking about their field experiences so that they systematically draw upon various components of their education (such as knowledge, skills, self-awareness, and professional values) to inform their work. The model assists students in maintaining an integrative focus in the field experience.…

Two doctoral-level marriage and family therapy students summarize their professional and personal experiences in their internships within a multidisciplinary healthcare setting. In addition, their supervisor reports on her experiences working with marriage and family therapy doctoral interns. (Author/MKA)

Discusses connections in undergraduate study between liberal learning and work, including internships, service learning, volunteerism, work-study programs, and students who work for a living. Focuses, however, on students who "work at learning," as a student culture which recognizes that in the final analysis, students themselves must work at…

More employers are turning to their internship and co-op programs to meet their hiring needs. Reports that NACE's first benchmark survey of experiential education programs reveals how employers structure and operate their "feeder" programs. Key findings suggest that organizations should resist the attempt to look at internships as a quick fix to…

Presents an instrument for measuring, comparing, and evaluating public relations internship programs consisting of a series of 10 value judgments as to what is optimal in public relations internships: student autonomy; public relations broadly defined; student responsibility; flexibility; limited faculty involvement; appropriate credit; internship…

Describes a classroom-based teacher education program that helps men and women move from other occupations through a period of "risky imbalance" to meaningful new role of rural school teacher. A survivor of the 1960s, the Upper Valley Teacher Training Program is a state-approved, nonprofit, independent program using services of academics…

Activities of the University of Missouri Career Center to develop internship programs in the local community include (1) introductory seminar for employers, (2) business expo on creative staffing using interns, and (3) action-oriented seminar that provides details of the process. (SK)