Frostburg State University

Form 002

Intern: Allison Wadding

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.

Overall I feel my internship was effective. However I feel that I did not spend enough time
working on discipline at the high school level. Parents, students, and staff were all highly
responsive and receptive to me during the PALS program. The staff in particular all made
great strides toward becoming better teachers. Dr. McGee was pleased with the way I ran her
program and said more than once that I have raised the bar for all future PALS principals.
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?

Yes, it did meet the needs of the individuals who participated. The teaching staff all made great
progress in their craft. The kids all had positive experiences and avoided the majority of summer
loss. Dr. McGee had a successfully run program.
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?

Yes, my work tripled the size of the program and solved all of the quandaries posed by a rapid
growth situation. I also put procedures in place that can be used for years to come.
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.

No it did not.
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?

We did provide participants, parents, and staff members the opportunity to critique the program.
The majority of the questions reflected things that I controlled.
6. Identify your efforts to bring members of different groups together to work on
achieving similar goals and objectives.

I recruited, trained, and supervised a staff consisting of; Undergraduate students, Masters in
Teaching Students, Educational Leadership Students, Washington County Community Action
Council, and volunteers. We had all to work toward the common goal of teaching and feeding
the students.
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.

I emailed, made phone calls, and met with people in person. I tried to give them a reason for
becoming involved where they felt they could be successful.
8. Name or identify types of planning strategies utilized in your project work.

Meetings, emails, google drive shared folders, brainstorming sessions, debriefs, mentoring,

collaborative planning.
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.

Trying to work with the parents in our PALS plan made it clear that there is still a long way to go
in getting parents to value education as much as the school system does. Some of them
expressed that though they were ok with the students doing school things the reason they were
participating was because it gave the parents some kid free time, and we fed the students. If the
attitude students see at home is that school is something that must be tolerated, then it stands to
reason that they will not make their best efforts and force themselves into having less potential.
Until the entire community sees education as something meaningful and important it will remain
a challenge to have the full backing of some of our families.