Here are some recommendations for how internship supervisors can support Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) students during their internships.
Internship subjects provide an important opportunity for students to prepare for the workforce by developing their professional skills through work-based learning. During their internships BCII students are looking to explore their transdisciplinary value proposition, by analysing their capabilities and building their professional identities.
Alongside the tasks and duties undertaken for their internships, students also complete academic assessments for their internship subjects. These assessments invite students to observe and reflect on how innovation is embedded in organisations and their practices. The subject also asks students to develop their own individual learning goals for their internships, empowering students to charter the gaps and growth in their own professional development as they mature their skill sets and build their experience for future careers.
There are lots of ways internship hosts can look to support student's learning throughout an internship, but here are two key ways that the internship supervisors (at the host org) can do this;
- Discuss student's individual learning goals at the start of the placement and identify how and where they can help facilitate this learning.
- During the internship offering regular times for feedback, both casual and more formal.
How to support interns and their professional learning outcomes
Other resources to help host organisations support learning
- The Work-Integrated Learning Australia (WIL Australia) Industry Guide - make the most of WIL
- For online internships, this guide is a resource to help you support an internship placement remotely.
Contact
If you have questions about BCII and MDSI internships, contact
TD School Partnerships - email: tdschoolpartnerships@uts.edu.au
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