Educational Leadership -Internship & Seminar Part IV

Catalog description

Educational Leadership is a full-year internship comprised of four terms in a public-school setting to allow candidates to apply, practice, and refine the knowledge and skills acquired from coursework. During this experience, candidates will engage in a minimum of 500 hours of leadership activities aligned with the North Carolina Standards for School Executives that will allow candidates to play an active role in identifying and solving school-related problems and engage in the assigned duties of administering the school. The candidate will be required to develop an educational leadership internship portfolio in accordance with the specifications provided. The candidate’s internship participation will be supervised jointly by school-based administrators and university personnel to include a reflective analysis, dispositional assessment, submission of portfolio components for evaluation, and an oral comprehensive exam. PREREQ: Completion of 15 hours of graduate course work and approval by the program director.