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● 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 OVERVIEWMID-FALL
EXPLORE,
LETTER OF INTENT,
CONTACT
LATE FALLCONFIRM AND
CONNECT
WINTER-SPRINGPRE-DEPARTURE
SEMINARS
SPRINGFINAL APPROVAL
SPRING-SUMMERCOMPLETION OF
PLACEMENT,ONLINE
SEMINARS
POST INTERNAHIPSEMINARS
FINAL COURSE WORK
Step ONe: GET INFORMEd...● Reflect on your goals:
professional, academic and personal
● Time commitment and travel dates: is this “do-able” for you?
● Budget: examine your finances and explore funding sources
● Read the course outline (on D2l)
● Attend the poster showcase and speak with students
● submit letter of intent (D2L)
MID-FALLEXPLORE, LETTER OF INTENT,
CONTACT
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 FALLCONFIRM 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 (tbd)
All seminars are MANDATORY
and take place between 5:30-7:30
WINTER/SPRINGPRE-DEPARTURE
SEMINARS
● Approved proposal
● Clear academic standing
● Successful completion of CLD/CCLD 363
● Registration with Ryerson International and
● Signed Legal Agreement between Ryerson and site
SPRING-FINAL APPROVAL
● Complete senior internship
● 25 consecutive full days (not including weekends)
● After final exam period and before the end of July
● online seminars
SPRING/SUMMERCOMPLETION OF
PLACEMENT
● 3rd year full time students will be enrolled in CLD 464 to complete seminars in the Fall with me
● 4th year part time students or full time out-of-sync students graduating in the fall are enrolled in CCLD 464 in the summer. Students will meet with me after internship is finished to complete final placement requirements prior to graduation
● Course work: poster presentation, reflective paper, ePortfolio
POST INTERNSHIPSEMINARS/FINAL COURSE WORK
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
[email protected] X7636
Room KHS 354 E (Monday-Thursday)
