EEA 641 Leadership Internship I in Student Services *

Students develop an internship proposal in collaboration with their university instructor and school/district-based mentor. Students spend a minimum of 40 hours engaged in supervised practice within student services departments or in undertaking school needs analyses and demographics, interviewing teachers and staff to assess educational needs. The internship requires a log of the student’s experiences with reflections of the student’s experience.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

ECC 509, EEA 535

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Demonstrate leadership vision and goals.
3. Apply leadership principles to the internship proposal.
4. Appraise the internship experiences in the school.
5. Evaluate Indigenous leadership approaches to decision making within the internship.
6. Evaluate school climate, academics, programs, and services.
7. Create a plan for an element of school improvement.