Superintendent Internship: Initial Review Guidelines and Rubric

Directions: For the Initial Review, interns mustsubmit a narrative regarding the eight internship areas. The rubric below will be used by the internship advising professor to evaluate your narrative.

Guidelines:

  1. You mustprovide a two-three page reflective narrative about any strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns you have regarding the eight internship areas (i.e., planning, policy development, resource allocation, program evaluation, community relations, staff relations, governance relations, and action research).
  2. Attach and submit your narrative to your internship advising professor through your portfolio in LiveText. Then provide a copy of your narrative to your internship cooperating superintendent (ELCC 7.6).
  3. Review the guidelines for developing and maintaining the Internship Time Log (located at (ELCC 7.4)
  4. Schedule an initial review meeting with your internship advising professor and cooperating superintendent to discuss your narrative and internship (ELCC 7.5).
  5. Reminder: After the initial review meeting, please complete the School District Profile Survey (located at (ELCC 7.1). Make sure you print out your responses BEFORE you submit the survey. A copy (i.e., scan/picture of printout) of your responses should be attached in your portfolio.

Eight Internship Areas / ELCC Standards / Exemplary (3) / Acceptable (2) / Unacceptable (1)
Planning: Developing goals, preparing forecasts and projects, conducting needs assessments, studying demographics, looking at long-range forecasting for a school or district. / Standard 1 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regarding planning at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regarding planning at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regarding planning at the district level.
Policy Development: Developing policy for new initiatives, developing procedures, leading ad hoc committees. / Standard 4 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingpolicy development at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingpolicy development at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingpolicy development at the district level.
Resource Allocation: Data-driven decision-making, priority development, proposal design and analysis, budget preparation and analysis, collective bargaining, briefings to parents or board members or the community about why certain decisions are desirable or not. / Standard 3 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingresource allocation at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingresource allocation at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingresource allocation at the district level.
Program Evaluation: Performance appraisals, supervision of teaching, coaching of other teachers, curriculum assessments, analysis of test data, and auditing the curriculum all fit in this category. / Standard 2 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingprogram evaluation at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingprogram evaluation at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingprogram evaluation at the district level.
Community Relations: Leading advisory boards, representing the district in various capacities, working toward referenda goals, serving on governmental committees, engaging local communities in initiatives. / Standards 4 and 6 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingcommunication relations at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingcommunication relations at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingcommunication relations at the district level.
Staff Relations: Administering contracts, developing personnel policy, conducting climate studies, working on internal communications. / Standard 3 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingstaff relations at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingstaff relations at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingstaff relationsat the district level.
Governance Relations: Board meeting presentations, management of board members and special interest groups, handling controversial issues. / Standards 4 and 6 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardinggovernance relations at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardinggovernance relations at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardinggovernance relations at the district level.
Action Research: Evaluation, data-driven decision-making, use of research in programming. / Standard 2 / Candidate provides a comprehensive description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingaction research at the district level. / Candidate provides a description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingaction research at the district level. / Candidate fails to provide an adequate description of her strengths, weaknesses, experiences, goals, and/or concerns regardingaction research at the district level.
Writing/Grammar / Writing and grammar both accurate and compelling; strong evidence of editing and proofreading / Writing and grammar accurate; evidence of proofreading and editing / Inconsistent writing and grammar or no evidence of proofreading