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Internships

Purpose:

To provide relevant occupational experience for twelfth grade students in a career field that aligns with their interests, abilities, and plans for postsecondary education and employment.

Description:

The Lincoln Public School’s Internship Program allows seniors to earn credit while serving as interns to professionals in the community. The student will be with their sponsor a minimum of five hours per week and the internship will be correlated with their high school coursework and career interests.

Objectives:  The student will be able:

1. To gain knowledge, skills, and experience in an occupation that is within their interests, abilities, and career path.
2. To become a self-directed learner by creating a vision for their future, setting priorities and achievable goals, assuming responsibility for their actions, and evaluating their progress.
3. To become a collaborative worker by using effective leadership and group skills to develop and manage interpersonal relationships within culturally and organizationally diverse settings.
4. To become a complex thinker by being able to (identify, access, integrate and use available resources and information to reason, make decisions) solve complex problems in a variety of contexts.
5. To become a contributor and productive worker within the organization.

Activities: 

The student observes their own sponsors until they are able to assume assigned responsibilities.  During the tenure as intern, they become actively involved in their assigned duties by sponsor including training, attending meetings, and completing projects that may be used by the organization.  They are required to conduct themselves in a professional manner by demonstrating promptness, dependability, dressing appropriately, and maintaining a cooperative and positive attitude toward the world of work.

Evaluation Components:

Students will receive a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory for this internship and the amount of credit and evaluation will be determined by the following guidelines:

Time & Credit: The amount of credit will be determined by the total number of hours of internship experience to include training, work hours, and project presentation time.  All students will be required to attend training provided by District or Sponsor.  Exact details of internship will be defined in contract specific to sponsor.  Students must participate all semester and complete 90 hours to earn 5 credits or 180 hours to earn 10 credits. 

Journal:  The student will be required to keep a weekly journal of their internship experience.  The entries in the journal should reflect what they have observed during the week, what activities they performed and insight into this occupation.

Project:  At the end of the internship semester, the student will be required to prepare a project, which will demonstrate their knowledge and ability to speak with confidence and maturity. 

Evaluation: The internship sponsor and coordinator will communicate ongoing and final evaluation of the student’s ability to set priorities, to make judgments and offer alternative solutions to problems, and to function effectively in an organizational environment.  The evaluations also reflect the student’s leadership ability, initiative, and work habits.