Internship

Internship will occur in the same time (assuming agreement of the internship site) in which practica was conducted during the second year of the project. Across the year of internship experiences, trainees will be expected to be in the capacity of the school psychologist within the RtI process, which would include:

• Facilitating assessment
• Consultation processes within the model

Students are required to successfully complete 1200 hours in a school setting as a school psychology intern. Because trainees will be placed in sites emphasizing an RtI process for service delivery and decision making, they will have the opportunity to directly provide services consistent with the model within which they spent their training.

Students are committed to their internship site from the first day of school district professional activities in the fall through the end of the school year in June. Students are expected to complete activities that include:

• Orientation to public schools
• Understanding available community resources
• Providing effective consultation and intervention
• Implementing system wide prevention and change processes
• Effective interaction within a model of team processes

At a minimum, during the year long internship, students are expected to participate in the following activities all embedded within an RtI model and produce products that represent evidence of the completion of the activities:

1. Participation in professional development within the district
2. Provide some form of professional development within the district
3. Conduct a process impacting system or school wide variables (e.g., normative data collection, data analysis) facilitation of an RtI plan
4. Conduct evaluations for students referred for special education eligibility
5. Conduct evaluations for students referred for behavior problems (e.g., functional behavioral assessment)
6. Conduct evaluations using curriculum-based assessment for students referred for academic skills problems
7. Conduct consultation/intervention programs for students with an academic skill problems
8. Conduct consultation/intervention programs for students with behavior problems

All activities are co-supervised by both field-based school psychologists working with the district where the trainee is an intern, as well as University based faculty.