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Registration For Educators Begins

February 1, 2010!

Professional Development Experience

Focusing On An “Externship” In Industry

Participants will investigate the workplace and develop methods for showing students the relationship between academic content and its context in business, industry, and the community. The investigation component includes a unique 18-hour professional "externship" at a business or industrial site. Built upon "teacher in the workplace" experience, practicing educators will learn the principles of contextual teaching and learning and how work skills apply to the Delaware academic standards. Some comments by educator externs in June 2009 :

“This was the single best professional development I've had in eight years in education!”

“I am a renewed teacher!”

“Each district would benefit greatly from an externship experience.”

" What a wonderful experience, both personally and professionally!”

View Our Externship Powerpoint

Benefits

Each participant will receive 25 professional development hours (20 if you have participated in a previous externship) as well as the opportunity to develop a relationship with members of the business community who may serve as advisors, guest speakers, mentors or resources for the participant’s program.

What You'll Learn

Ideas for integrating curricula and showing the relationship between workplace skills and classroom content.
How to utilize local businesses as future educational resources.
Strategies for helping students understand why improving their school performance is important.
Career counseling information for jobs related to the subject you teach and for which your students may aspire.
How to help your students prepare for future employer expectations.

There Are Two Ways To Participate

Standard Externship: You can request a business from the list of participating businesses posted on this website (The List of Participating Businesses will be posted February 1, 2010). Choose 3 businesses, and list them on your registration form. You will be placed in one of your choices, based on availability. This type of participation is a Standard Externship. The deadline for applying for a Standard Externship is April 1, 2010.

2. Custom Externship: Instead of selecting a business from our standard list of participating businesses, call with a business selection of your own choosing or complete a registration form. Is there a business that you would like to visit and research? Call the business you would like to visit, and we will assist you to secure the site. This type of participation is a Custom Externship. Because these customized externships will take time to develop, the deadline for submitting suggested Custom Externship sites is March 15, 2010.

List of Participating Businesses

Calendar and Commitments

Orientation on Monday, May 10, 2010 for educators at the John Collette Educational Resource Center in Dover, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. (ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY) for continued participation in the June Teacher Externship Program.

A meeting with your externship mentor at the business site sometime in the month of May - you arrange the date and time.

Monday, June 21 through Thursday, June 24, 2010 : An 18 hour professional externship at your business site. Schedules will vary depending on the business, and the externship may be completed in three days if desirable.

Wrap-Up on Friday, June 25, 2010 for educators at the John Collette Educational Resource Center in Dover from 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY)

Driving Directions - John Collette Educational Resource Center

Register for your Externship

Teacher Registration (Begins February 1, 2010)

Externship Committee

Rita Hovermale, Delaware Department of Education
Janine Sorbello , Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
Carol Blaeuer, Delaware Business, Industry, Education (BIE) Alliance
Lori Aldrich , Delaware, Business, Industry, Education (BIE) Alliance

Co-sponsored by the Delaware Business, Industry, Education (BIE) Alliance, the Delaware Department of Education, and the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, the Teacher Externship Program has the ability to influence hundreds of students every year, by making the connection between school to work with real-life examples.

For additional information contact:

Lori Aldrich

at (302) 368-4591 or laldrich@bie.k12.de.us

Prompt registration will increase your chances of securing the externship location of your choice. Apply as soon as possible, beginning February 1, 2010.