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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

LATE FALL CONFIRM AND CONNECT

WINTER-SPRING PRE-DEPARTURE SEMINARS SPRING FINAL APPROVAL SPRING-SUMMER COMPLETION OF PLACEMENT, ONLINE SEMINARS POST INTERNAHIP SEMINARS 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-FALL EXPLORE, 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
• pportunity.
• 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

• r 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

• r 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
• ther 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/SPRING PRE-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

• nline seminars

SPRING/SUMMER COMPLETION 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
• r 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 INTERNSHIP SEMINARS/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 jennifer.butterly@ryerson.ca X7636 Room KHS 354 E (Monday-Thursday)