Two types of internships are available to ETD students to assist them in attaining their professional and career goals:  WED 495 - Instructional Internship and WED 496 - Professional Internship. WED 495 is designed for individuals who want to become classroom and/or laboratory instructors. The students would serve their internships at community colleges, in apprenticeship programs, corporate education and training departments, or some other type of human performance improvement facility assisting individuals acquire the necessary knowledge and skills for employment. Internship credit would be earned for direct classroom/laboratory instruction, as well as, related curriculum development, classroom preparation or student performance and project evaluation activity.

WED 496 differs in purpose from WED 495, in that, the professional internship is designed to accommodate students whose professional goals might be in areas other than classroom instruction; for example, HPI program development, curriculum writing, program evaluation, quality systems management, and so forth.

Also, credit can be earned in both WED 495 and WED 496 for students interested in gaining experience in both classroom/laboratory instruction and other HPI-related activities.

The six semester hour (300 clock hour) internship is part of the 30 semester hour ETD Professional Sequence.  The internship experience is arranged with the WED “Coordinator of Professional Experiences and Internships” the semester prior to the semester in which the student wants serve the internship.

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