PACE - LCSC Education Division - Lewis-Clark State College

10. Learn and carry out school policies and procedures (see district/school handbook for schoolemployees);11. Keep outside involvement to a minimum;12. Develop professional relationships.During the internship, you are expected to fulfill responsibilities both on campus usingBlackboard Learn, Megameeting, and/or IVC camera/WebCam and at your assigned school site.You are to complete college course assignments as well as duties assigned at your school. Youshould perform professionally according to public school policies and procedures. Failure tosuccessfully progress through the internship may result in an extended internship, inability tocontinue the internship, or withdrawal from the Teacher Education Program. Internship involvesa total commitment for the entire two semesters. For this reason, only under extremecircumstances will the Field Experience Committee approve additional course work other thanProfessional Seminar and Adaptive Teaching. Outside employment during internship is stronglydiscouraged.Expectations During the First InternshipThe following activities are required for interns during the first semester of internship.1. Maintain a lucid and thoughtful reflective journal about the internship and associatedcourse work with no less than three entries per week.2. Work with the PACE Coordinator or a designee, OSTE and college mentor to planappropriate teaching opportunities.3. Be formally and informally observed and evaluated during participation in classroomactivities.4. Compile a record using the Evidence of Professional Competence of ability to meetprogram performance standards for knowledge, skills, and dispositions. You will includeno less than thirty-five entries. A variety of educational professionals may initialize theentries for you. The college supervisor will sign the Demonstration of Knowledge,Skills, and Dispositions Summary Sheet when s/he believes that the competencies havebeen sufficiently demonstrated on a regular basis.5. Be evaluated during the summer term. College mentors and OSTE will complete at leastfour evaluations during the summer term. 1 You will complete two self-evaluationsduring the semester.6. Receive successful mid-term and end-of-summer term evaluations from the on-siteteacher educator and college mentors.7. Compile evidence of attainment of program performance objectives for use in theportfolio. At the conclusion of the summer term, you will be expected to have no lessthan one piece of evidence for each of the program standards.8. Develop and present a cooperative unit that meets all specifications with particularemphasis on providing for multicultural teaching/learning.9. Begin to develop a professional resource file that will be evaluate during Intern II.1 School mentors will complete at least four formal evaluations during the semester.20