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Leadership Core: (24 hours)
Research and Dissertation: (15 hours)
Summer Institutes: (9 hours)
Cognate Studies: (12 hours-Superintendent Certification) |
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INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Doctorate students complete a required doctoral internship (EDAD 7308) in the third year. In preparing the doctoral internship proposal, students select an intern setting that provides the greatest opportunity for development as a scholar-practitioner leader. The internship experience may be completed within the student’s current employing organization or in another setting. If a student chooses to complete a second internship, it must be completed in a different setting.
TIME/LOCATION COURSE MEETS
An internship earns three (3) hours of graduate credit with a minimum of 160 hours of contact time for the P-12 cognate in a field-based setting under an approved mentor, and university supervisor.
ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Doctoral courses contain appropriate advanced academic activity reflected in the areas of content, process, and product. The advanced activity is facilitated through the dimensions of critical thinking (CT), synthesis and integration of materials (SI), depth of engagement of materials (DE), and contribution to scholarship (CS). The purpose of advanced academic activity is to demonstrate a higher level of sophistication and to emphasize separation from Masters level courses.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Course objectives are student behavioral outcomes that can be measured, evaluated, and supported through documentation. Course objectives relate to departmental objectives, to objectives of the University Graduate Program, and to the University Mission. Course objectives reflect advanced academic activity.
Internships can be a crucial role in graduate student professional development. The internship provides a type of learning that is not available in the academic classroom of the university. It can provide experiential learning that supplements the university classroom with productive skills, attitudes, and motivations. It provides a setting for the successful integration of personal and institutional goals that shapes an individual to meet the complexities in modern society. The internship presents a unique opportunity for the prospective administrative leader to blend academic learnings and insights with practical experience. An internship can confirm your interest in a career area, or conversely, cause you to reassess your plan.
The internship is planned for a semester-long experience; however, due to the required hours for completion the internship may expand into the spring semester. The internship is a capstone experience designed to maximize the intern’s opportunities to practice and refine knowledge and skills required of leaders in organizations.
Upon the completion of the course, the student will:
(1) Synthesize knowledge of research and apply appropriate action to task involving leadership, instruction, and administration
(2) Formulate a substantive narrative description of the internship setting including the
locations of the sponsoring organization, the work or interning conditions, and the people
who will be involved
(3) Experience the role of their on-site mentor
(4) Provide a detailed overview in a matrix of the internship including the goal, type of activity
alternatively, experience, type of mentoring, contact time, assessment strategies, and
expected dates when the activity will occur
(5) Identify the expected outcomes to be accomplished in the relationship with the mentor and
the sponsoring organization in relation to the specific goal
(6) Provide a concise purpose statement for the internship that explicitly reflects the potential
for scholar-practitioner, leadership development within the setting of the sponsoring
organization and in relation to the mentor
(7) Identify and describe the relationship of the internship experience with career goals
(8) Professional portfolio for presentation
Doctorate students complete a required doctoral internship (EDAD 7308) in the third year. In preparing the doctoral internship proposal, students select an intern setting that provides the greatest opportunity for development as a scholar-practitioner leader. The internship experience may be completed within the student’s current employing organization or in another setting. If a student chooses to complete a second internship, it must be completed in a different setting.
TIME/LOCATION COURSE MEETS
An internship earns three (3) hours of graduate credit with a minimum of 160 hours of contact time for the P-12 cognate in a field-based setting under an approved mentor, and university supervisor.
ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Doctoral courses contain appropriate advanced academic activity reflected in the areas of content, process, and product. The advanced activity is facilitated through the dimensions of critical thinking (CT), synthesis and integration of materials (SI), depth of engagement of materials (DE), and contribution to scholarship (CS). The purpose of advanced academic activity is to demonstrate a higher level of sophistication and to emphasize separation from Masters level courses.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Course objectives are student behavioral outcomes that can be measured, evaluated, and supported through documentation. Course objectives relate to departmental objectives, to objectives of the University Graduate Program, and to the University Mission. Course objectives reflect advanced academic activity.
Internships can be a crucial role in graduate student professional development. The internship provides a type of learning that is not available in the academic classroom of the university. It can provide experiential learning that supplements the university classroom with productive skills, attitudes, and motivations. It provides a setting for the successful integration of personal and institutional goals that shapes an individual to meet the complexities in modern society. The internship presents a unique opportunity for the prospective administrative leader to blend academic learnings and insights with practical experience. An internship can confirm your interest in a career area, or conversely, cause you to reassess your plan.
The internship is planned for a semester-long experience; however, due to the required hours for completion the internship may expand into the spring semester. The internship is a capstone experience designed to maximize the intern’s opportunities to practice and refine knowledge and skills required of leaders in organizations.
Upon the completion of the course, the student will:
(1) Synthesize knowledge of research and apply appropriate action to task involving leadership, instruction, and administration
(2) Formulate a substantive narrative description of the internship setting including the
locations of the sponsoring organization, the work or interning conditions, and the people
who will be involved
(3) Experience the role of their on-site mentor
(4) Provide a detailed overview in a matrix of the internship including the goal, type of activity
alternatively, experience, type of mentoring, contact time, assessment strategies, and
expected dates when the activity will occur
(5) Identify the expected outcomes to be accomplished in the relationship with the mentor and
the sponsoring organization in relation to the specific goal
(6) Provide a concise purpose statement for the internship that explicitly reflects the potential
for scholar-practitioner, leadership development within the setting of the sponsoring
organization and in relation to the mentor
(7) Identify and describe the relationship of the internship experience with career goals
(8) Professional portfolio for presentation