step 6. internship report
Step 6. Internship report
In this step:
Deadline: end of the first week of school year 6TV
In this step:
- You write a report about your internship
- You make a poster about your internship
- You complete your portfolio with more information about the internship
Deadline: end of the first week of school year 6TV
Internship report
After finishing your internship you write an English language report on the internship. Main goal of the report is to show your language skills as well as reporting on the experience, skills and knowledge you have gained. As part of the report you can deliver any correspondence between you and (potential) internship organisations, describe your experiences during the internship and evaluate the entire experience.
Report content
Further requirements on the report
Poster
The poster is made to visualise your internship. By using (colourful) pictures, photos or diagrams and short texts and titles you show in a glance where you have been, what you have done there and what you have learned. You also write down some tips for the students who will be doing their internship after you, for example about how you found your internship. You use the poster during the poster presentation to the new 5TVWO students in September or October of year 6. You make the poster in A3 size and in colour. You can make the poster by hand or design it on the computer.
Guidelines for your poster
Portfolio
As a final step, make sure to put the internship report and the poster in your portfolio, with a brief description of the assignment.
Deliver
You deliver the poster and the report, together with the forms mentioned in the previous step, on the final day of the first week of school in 6TVWO at the latest. Do so through Magister Opdrachten and/ or on paper in 012 (some of you will make the poster by hand and many will deliver the evaluation form on paper as well). If you deliver the poster digitally, the TTO coordinator can print it A3 size in colour for you if you meet the deadline.
NOTE
When the entire internship has been done, your mentor in year 6TVWO will make a note in Magister. You need this note to receive your TTO Senior Certificate. For this, you have to have successfully finished ALL steps of the internship, including:
After finishing your internship you write an English language report on the internship. Main goal of the report is to show your language skills as well as reporting on the experience, skills and knowledge you have gained. As part of the report you can deliver any correspondence between you and (potential) internship organisations, describe your experiences during the internship and evaluate the entire experience.
Report content
- Describe how you have arranged your internship and why you chose this organisation.
- Describe what you did during your internship and what your impression of the organisation was.
- Describe if and how you encountered cultural differences, language barriers and/ or differences in norms and values.
- Reflect on what you have learned, both at the organisation as during the preparation of your internship. This can be in the areas of career orientation (e.g. have you gained insight into your future plans, or discovered that something does not suit you as well as you thought?), internationalisation (e.g. how did you handle cultural differences), executive functions (e.g. did you have everything perfectly planned or not?), personal development (e.g. was this easy or difficult for you? Do you feel like you developed socially and/ or emotionally?) or in the area of language skills (e.g. what was it like for you to have to communicate in a different language than Dutch?). Express your reflection in strengths and points of development.
- As part of your reflection, look at the Broklede Learning Tracks. Connect at least two Broklede Learning Tracks to what you have learned.
Further requirements on the report
- Make sure the report is written in proper English.
- Work neatly: make sure there is a title, any necessary sub titles, and paragraphs.
- Use a standard font such as Verdana, Times New Roman or Calibri, line distance 1,5 and size 10, 11 or 12.
- Write 600-800 words.
Poster
The poster is made to visualise your internship. By using (colourful) pictures, photos or diagrams and short texts and titles you show in a glance where you have been, what you have done there and what you have learned. You also write down some tips for the students who will be doing their internship after you, for example about how you found your internship. You use the poster during the poster presentation to the new 5TVWO students in September or October of year 6. You make the poster in A3 size and in colour. You can make the poster by hand or design it on the computer.
Guidelines for your poster
- Make sure that the poster is in A3 size. If you make it in Word, for example, that means you have to change the format to A3.
- Use colourful pictures, photos, diagrams, headlines and short, bullet-pointed texts.
- Make sure the design of your poster is appealing.
- The poster should indicate which company you have visited where, what you have done and what you have learned.
- Indicates some tips for future students.
- Focus on the internship itself, not the activities around it.
Portfolio
As a final step, make sure to put the internship report and the poster in your portfolio, with a brief description of the assignment.
Deliver
You deliver the poster and the report, together with the forms mentioned in the previous step, on the final day of the first week of school in 6TVWO at the latest. Do so through Magister Opdrachten and/ or on paper in 012 (some of you will make the poster by hand and many will deliver the evaluation form on paper as well). If you deliver the poster digitally, the TTO coordinator can print it A3 size in colour for you if you meet the deadline.
NOTE
When the entire internship has been done, your mentor in year 6TVWO will make a note in Magister. You need this note to receive your TTO Senior Certificate. For this, you have to have successfully finished ALL steps of the internship, including:
- All forms A-E
- Internship
- Internship report
- Poster AND poster presentation
- Portfolio