INTERNATIONAL/National senior internship- 2019 jennifer.butterly@ryerson.ca
Agenda Welcome ● Eligibility ● An overview of the process ● Letter of Intent ● Next Steps: Explore, Contact, Confirm, Connect ●
Eligibility… Full Time Student: currently in your third year ● successfully completing CLD 363 by the end of the ● Winter (2020) term clear academic standing ● Part Time Student: completing final degree courses by the end of the ● spring/summer (2020) and graduating in the fall 2020 convocation ceremony clear academic standing ● Out-of-Sync Student: completing final degree courses by the end of the ● spring/summer (2020) and graduating in the fall 2020 convocation ceremony clear academic standing ●
When do internships take place? During the spring/summer ● Beginning AFTER the final exam period ends (April 25) ● and before the end of July. Internships are FIVE consecutive weeks (a total of 25 ● full internship days)
THE PROCESS OVERVIEW MID-FALL EXPLORE, LETTER OF INTENT, CONTACT POST INTERNAHIP LATE FALL SEMINARS CONFIRM AND CONNECT FINAL COURSE WORK SPRING-SUMMER WINTER-SPRING COMPLETION OF PRE-DEPARTURE PLACEMENT, SEMINARS ONLINE SEMINARS SPRING FINAL APPROVAL
Step ONe: GET INFORMEd... Reflect on your goals: ● professional, academic and personal Time commitment and travel ● dates: is this “do-able” for MID-FALL you? Budget: examine your ● EXPLORE, finances and explore funding LETTER OF sources INTENT, Read the course outline (on ● D2l) CONTACT Attend the poster showcase ● and speak with students submit letter of intent ● (D2L)
Letter of Intent... The letter of intent is submitted by you to indicate your interest in pursuing this opportunity for the upcoming spring/summer session. Keep in mind: this letter expresses your intent to formally pursue this ● opportunity. you do not have to have site confirmation to hand this ● It is also a tool used by me to: determine your eligibility to participate ● gather information on the approximate number of ● interested students and locations of potential sites The letter of intent is available on D2L and is due to me on or before October 31 to the ECS drop box
explore… Everyone has a different starting place: ● ○ inspiration/interest: a philosophy, pedagogy or a specific organization ○ the destination- where you have friends and family, interested in travel ○ following footsteps: going where other students have been before
Poster Showcase….SAVE the date October 21 1:00-2:30 SLC Amphitheatre Talk with students that completed internship this past spring/summer
Contact *****Must be within the field of early childhood (age range: birth to 8 years) Begin now...don’t wait! ● Do your research...have an understanding of your site, ● know why you want to be there and articulate this Contacting a few sites is encouraged, but be upfront ● about your “exploration phase” Contact once, follow up after a week if you haven’t ● heard back, follow up one more time, move on if no response Don’t be afraid to use the phone!! Sometimes emails ● get missed ***You must use your Ryerson email account for any email correspondence
Contact…. Information to share: WHO: Information about yourself (goals, previous experience etc...), your program and Ryerson, why are you interested in their site( do your research, have an understanding of the sites you are applying to) WHAT: Unpaid internship, 5 consecutive weeks (25 days), timeframe(April 26-end of July) ***Some sites may want to have verification from our school or require further information, if so, introduce me through an email and I will provide further information so that they can make a decision
cONFIRM AND cONNECT LATE FALL CONFIRM AND CONNECT
confirm Confirmation from your site means that they have agreed ● to accept you as an internship student If you receive more than one confirmation, make a ● decision and then follow up with other site (s) to professionally decline Once you have confirmed and accepted an offer to be ● hosted as an internship student, you cannot accept another site
connect Once you have confirmed a site, you MUST connect them to ● me via email immediately. Please send an email (from your Ryerson account), to your contact and myself and introduce us I must connect with the site regarding expectations, ● legal agreements and answer any questions they may have
Connect and Confirm: Important dates Internships must be confirmed and connected to me by no later than Friday, December 13, 2019
Why the early deadline? Each site must enter into a legal agreement with Ryerson and this takes time considering factors such as: language and time differences ● other competing demands on your site ● negotiations that may need to be made ● If we do not have a legal agreement established, you cannot use the site. You are therefore strongly encouraged to contact sites that we already have agreements with (see D2L for list of sites with current legal agreements)
Pre-departure Seminars Seminar 1- February ● (tbd) Seminar 2- March ● (tbd) Seminar 3- April ● WINTER/SPRING (tbd) PRE-DEPARTURE All seminars are SEMINARS MANDATORY and take place between 5:30-7:30
Approved proposal ● Clear academic standing ● Successful completion of ● CLD/CCLD 363 Registration with Ryerson ● SPRING- International and FINAL APPROVAL Signed Legal Agreement ● between Ryerson and site
Complete senior ● internship 25 consecutive full days ● (not including weekends) SPRING/SUMMER After final exam period ● and before the end of COMPLETION OF July PLACEMENT online seminars ●
3 rd year full time students ● will be enrolled in CLD 464 to complete seminars in the Fall with me 4 th year part time students ● or full time out-of-sync students graduating in the POST INTERNSHIP fall are enrolled in CCLD 464 in the summer. Students SEMINARS/FINAL will meet with me after internship is finished to COURSE WORK complete final placement requirements prior to graduation Course work: poster ● presentation, reflective paper, ePortfolio
Questions? Individual meetings with me- please email me to set up ● an appointment Connecting with previous students-please email and I ● will try to facilitate connection jennifer.butterly@ryerson.ca X7636 Room KHS 354 E (Monday-Thursday)
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