The LTI program is a central roll in the school’s curriculum and is one of the most important ways that students take their learning beyond the classroom. Students are allowed to explore careers that they are considering to pursue in later life in a real way. At internships students often work as employees and are expected to complete the same tasks. Students develop an academic project to benefit their internship and incorporate the Learning Goals into their internship work. When students find an internship that they love, everything about their engagement with their learning changes in a positive way. LTI’s also offer students access too many different technologies and experiences that they could not get at Shenandoah alone. Students have interned with architecture firms with access to CAD a drafting program, to veterinarians and hospitals. At their internships students are trained to use many of the things that the employees of the business use everyday.
List of some Internship’s students have had
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Twelve Traits of a GREAT Intern:
1. ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE: Express your thoughts clearly and use appropriate language.
2. INTELLIGENCE: Try to understand the work at hand, use your intuition.
3. SELF-CONFIDENCE: Handle all of your situations professionally.
4. WILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBITLITY: Take responsibility for all of your work; even if it’s bad.
5. INITIATIVE: Do not wait for someone to tell you to do things, do them without being asked.
6. LEADERSHIP: Guide and direct others or learn to accept responsibility.
7. ENERGY LEVEL: Be enthusiastic and passionate with your work.
8. IMAGINATION: Try to get a different perspective on whatever project you are doing at your LTI, also, look for new, more inventive ways to solve a problem. Be creative!
9. FLEXIBILITY: Adapt and adjust to the different situations.
10. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Bring out the best in others and try to be a little social.
11. SELF KNOWLEDGE: Assist your skills, strong points, weak points and see yourself as others see you.
12. ABILITY TO HANDLE CONFLICT: Learn to ask others for help in a hard situation. Usually your advisor and/or your LTI coordinator.
