Welcome, current interns! This website was created especially for your use.

Please make yourself familiar with the information and resources in this website that you'll need throughout the semester. The links below are especially important for new interns to review: Useful Documents -printable documents for use throughout the semester. These documents include your semester calendar, attendance sheets, assessment tests, and more. Internship Assignments -assignments that you will gather material for throughout the semester and turn in at the end of the semester. Driving Policy -how to get from ASU to your community site via carpooling, or becoming a certified ASU Van Driver.

Useful Documents

Current interns will find some useful links to printable word documents below:

Calendar
Please familiarize yourself with the calendar, and make sure to notify your students ahead of time when classes will be cancelled due to holiday breaks!

Photo waivers
If you take a great photograph during one of your ESL classes and you would like to post it on this website or in any other ASU publication, make sure to print out photo waivers and make sure everyone in the photograph signs one!

Attendance sheets
Take daily attendance in class, and please keep all attendance sheets.

Tips for Teaching Adult Learners as a Tutor

Oral Assessment Tests - used at both sites
Written Assessment Tests - Betania Community Center
Written Assessment Tests - Salvation Army Citadel

Each teacher may choose their own manner of assessing and rewarding the progress of their students; however, we ask that these basic assessment tests be given on the first day of class. They will help you determine what level your students are at.



Internship Assignments


BINDERS
Keep a binder of all lesson plans, activities, and handouts throughout the semester. Also include attendance sheets, photo waivers, and assessment tests in your binder. You can find great examples of binders made by past interns in the ESL Resource Cupboard.



REFLECTIVE ESSAYS
A reflective essay roughly ten pages in length is required at the end of the semester. It is recommended that you keep notes throughout the semester of what you are learning from this internship, which will make the essay much easier to write! Details of the essay will be discussed at the beginning of each semester. You can find examples of past essays by viewing the Student Work page.



Driving Policy

Interns typically carpool together from ASU to their community site. If no one has access to a car, ASU provides access to vans.

The van or carpool must leave ASU no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of class time.

If you choose to ride in a van, each passenger will have to pay a $20.00 fee for the semester. If you are the primary van driver, the $20.00 fee will be waived.

Van-driving lessons are available; you can register for a "Coaching the Van Driver" course through the following website:

http://www.asu.edu/fm/Risk/envirohealthsafety.htm