Hello!
At Georgia Southern, we have actually pulled our students out of the university child development lab classrooms for the fall. Our state agency over childcare programs has limited the number of people that can be in a room and thus eliminates students who are non-essential. The instructor for that course is going to do a flipped classroom but I am not completely sure of the details.
For interns, I have been able to successfully place students. Our interns cover a wide span of placements across our concentrations (Child Life, Family Services and Child Development). For the Child Development full-time interns (final semester), they are going to 4-H, ABA clinics, public prek in a public school system, some child cares are accepting interns, some are not so it depends. It's been tough, but I have just about found them all a site. Each site has to submit their COVID safety protocols which I then submit to the administration in my program for approval. In the spring, the interns who were in sites that closed then had to support the programs remotely by doing live video calls with children, creating activities for families, etc.
Hope this helps.
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Katy Gregg
Associate Professor
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro GA
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-23-2020 01:35 PM
From: Fain Barker
Subject: Internships and Placements
Hi, I'm curious to hear what others are doing regarding college students' internships and placements in early childhood settings? I'm having a hard time finding enough good videos to supplement as a virtual alternative! Thanks!!
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Fain Barker
Assistant Professor of Child Development
Meredith College
Raleigh NC
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