Frostburg State University

Form 002

Intern: Brad A Delauter

Administration and Supervision

Self-Assessment of Final Practicum
Your internship has been a total experience that included not only yourself, but also all of
the staff, administration, students, parents, and community members who participated in
some way in projects of your implementation. Also, you might consider all of the individuals
you were required to deal with as you conducted the internship duties and responsibilities.
For example, discipline problems would normally involve students, teachers, and parents at
a minimum. As you attended to such discipline problems, you would be engaged in trying
to facilitate among the needs of all individuals. Given this back-drop, provide answers to
the following questions regarding your internship practicum experience.
1. Was your internship effective? Did it meet all of the goals and objectives as stated in
your Planning Guide?
In answering this question fully, consider the use of such instrumentation as:
a. Pre- and post-surveys to determine outcomes of staff development training
b. Observation checklists to determine if students were behaving in the ways
expected by the school and the community
c. Interview schedules to determine parent and community opinions about the
need for a change or the impact of a change
d. Data from standardized tests and measures to determine how well students
have learned over a given period of time in given subject areas.

The internship was very informative and effective. The

internship provided a view to the preparation, development and
behind the scenes duties of the administrative world. The
development of the upcoming school year involves various data
and input to create learning for all.

2. Did your internship projects meet the specific needs of all of the individuals who
participated? Where Question #1 focuses on the project goals and objectives of your
internship, this question focuses on the needs of individual participants. How well do
you believe individual participants needs were met throughout your internship?

The internship provided experience with developing and

preparing for the 2015-2016 school year over the summer. This
particular time period allowed me to observe the development of
our vision of staff as a management concept.

3. Did your internship help to bring about meaningful organizational change in your
school building? Many times internship projects are designed to facilitate the
development and implementation of new programs either for the delivery of
instructional services to students of to help in the management of the organization.
Did your internship facilitate such conditions at the building level? One important way
to determine the answer to this question is to investigate whether or not your
internship projects had an impact on the buildings mission and /or vision statements
regarding schooling. Was learning positively affected by your work?

Over the summer I was able to contribute to a new program that will
boost school culture. The program impacts students, staff, as well as
the mission statement. This program is intended to increase learning
while promoting social behaviors.
4. Did your internship help to bring about meaningful organizational change in the school
district? There have been times when an internship project has been piloted at a
building site with the intention that, if judged to be effective, the district or the division
would have considered adapting it at other sites. In this way a pilot project could have
an impact on the organizational change of an entire district or division. How close did
your internship come to enjoying such an impact on the district or division? In refining
your answer to this question with an interest of establishing a broader base t it,
consider reviewing the districts or the divisions mission statement or board of
education annual reports on their goals to the community.

The summer internship offered a unique view of district policies.

However, the opportunity to engage in district change was not
presented. As I continue as active learner may able to influence or be
part of change will increase.
5. Did your internship experience provide project participants an opportunity to have
input on the overall assessment of the experience? Did you give staff members,
parents, students, and community members an opportunity to let you know how they
think your internship affected the district or the division, the building, and the
instructional programs?

Working with my fellow intern and assistant administrators provided

me with information and input as well as feedback. As a team we
interviewed several county administrators and recorder their feedback.
6. Identify your efforts to bring members of different groups together to work on
achieving similar goals and objectives.

I was able to promote my counterparts new incentive and share that

vision with our administrators. As a group we created and initiated this
new incentive.

7. Identify strategies used to engage members from different constituents in the project
work. Examples of such constituents include but are not limited to these: parents,
senior citizens, and local government figures.

Building a good rapport as a strategy established a positive

relationship with the community and allowed the school to reach
educational goals
8. Name or identify types of planning strategies utilized in your project work.
Timelines
Survey results
Calendars
Briefing
Meetings
Google Doc
9. Name or identify ways by which your internship experience might have made it clear to
you that local issues can confront us with barriers to change.

Educational changes in recent times have created a unique situation

where barriers and conflicts can be created on the local and school level.
The internship allowed me to see how we as structure internalize and
initiate change in order to alleviate barriers.