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Phase 3: Reflecting and Evaluating
Phase 3: Reflecting and Evaluating
The internship experience culminates with students and site supervisors reflecting on and evaluating their work together. As in Phase 2, this resource focuses on youth’s skill development and the work site experience, from both the site supervisor and intern perspectives. However, there are a few key differences in this phase:
The site supervisor and intern are looking back across the internship, from beginning to end, reflecting on the intern’s skill development, and identifying trends (i.e., attendance got a little more spotty towards the end, but communication got progressively better).
The intern and supervisor evaluate each other, answering questions like, would you recommend this internship placement for other students, and, would you employ this intern?
WBLCs have a chance to reflect on students’ evaluations of an employer site and consider what kinds of support may be needed to improve students’ experiences there. The WBLC may also determine if the employer site or that type of site is a good fit for students.
To reflect, WBLCs should go back first – to gather and review the LTW Monthly Skills Progress Form data and the Employer Site Assessment responses. If WBLCs have a strong organizational system for the Monthly Skills Progress Form data, the review of this data will be simpler. And then, WBLCs will just facilitate final reflections and evaluations through:
Site Supervisor Reflection Protocol and Evaluation
Intern Reflection Protocol and Evaluation
“...it helps the program understand from the intern's perspective what worked, and what didn't, what things the program should change with respect to the intern. It gives the intern a voice since they're the ones working in that environment.” — WBL Coordinator
Intern/Site Supervisor Summative Reflection and Evaluation Tool
Intern/Site Supervisor Summative Reflection and Evaluation Tool
The rationale for this resource
The rationale for this resource
This resource serves two important purposes: (1) Students are prompted to review and reflect on the feedback about their skill development, strength, and growth areas, throughout their internship, including a summative evaluation from their site supervisor. (2) You get feedback from students to assess employer worksites.
Who can use this resource and when
Who can use this resource and when
This resource is designed for WBL Coordinators (the “you” in this guidance) to use: With site supervisors and interns after an internship.
How to use this resource: There are a few stages to engaging with this resource.
Review & Organize Data
Pull up the Employer Site Assessment Form and any notes you’ve gathered through conversations with the intern and site supervisor.
Prepare the student’s Monthly Skills Progress Form data for review.
Tip: If you’ve been using hard copies, go through them and note/highlight in some way trends you want to discuss with the site supervisor and student. If you’ve been using Google Forms, look at the graphs the form has created and use them to identify trends that will support site supervisor and student reflections.
Supervisor Evaluation
Go through the Site Supervisor Reflection Protocol with the site supervisor.
Give them the Site Supervisor Summative Intern Evaluation Form.
Tip: The order of the data you review with them is intentional – Employer Site Assessment Form and then Monthly Skills Progress Form. By revisiting the Employer Site Assessment data first, you and the site supervisor will re-establish the working conditions the intern experienced; this may help you ask any clarifying and probing questions when you review Monthly Skills Progress Form data.
Assess the Work Site
Gather the student feedback about the site from all the interns working there, review it and make note of questions, bright spots, and concerns you want to share with the site supervisor when you return to the Employer Site Assessment Form for a new cohort of interns.
Tip: At the end of this stage, pause to consider if this employer site or this type of site is a good fit for the youth at your school.
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