Education Department Internship Field Experience

Journal Reflection
Intern Name
Date
Amount of
Time
5/9/16
1
5/11/16
3.5
5/12/16
1
5/13/16
1.5

ISSLC Domain
Standard 4 Collaborative Leadership
(CL)

Name and Description of Activity

Attended a school based professional development on areas of
school improvement.
Met with graphic design teacher.
Met with our school communications liaison and our media
specialist.
Reflections and Insights
This week, I attended a professional development offered by my
district to prospective administrators that served as a review session
for the CAT (Connecticut Administrators Test). This test is required
for completion of the 092 program after a course of study through a
university. The test is a series of four practice case studies, two that
address instructional analysis and teacher support and two that
address school improvement, that force the student to respond to
situations and identify the link between school administrator
standards theory and actual practice. I found this review class to be
extremely beneficial in laying out a plan of how to develop a process
for implementing the standards that we have been learning about in
our respective courses into analyzing and problem solving real world
scenarios in education. Just like in using our text by Green (2013),
the skills learned will foster [our]capacity to analyze situations,
make decisions, and communicate with constituents (p. 22).
I also met with our schools communications liaison and media
specialist who had heard about and seen our students newspaper
articles both in our school paper and in the locally published paper
and wanted to see how we could collaborate with one another on
projects that they were spearheading as well. One of the jobs of our
communications liaison is to broadcast what is happening in our
school on the television monitors located around the school. When
he saw our school newspapers this year, he asked if our newspaper
club could also take some of the pictures from their articles and place
them in a PowerPoint with a caption that he would then run on the
monitors as a preview of what will be appearing in our school news
for the upcoming edition. Additionally, the media specialist is also
our parent liaison and creates a parent newsletter every month.
When she saw our student newspapers, she asked me if there was a
way we could work together to overlap what was being published in
the school paper into the parent newsletter, specifically the student
news section which highlights what has been going on in our
building. Both of these ideas have expanded my original project and
my definition of community. I had originally been writing about in my