Note: Internships are for Teachers College or Columbia University students only.

Internship Opportunities within Teachers College

CTELL

Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy Learning (CTELL) is a $5.5 million dollar, NSF-funded grant entering its fifth year in studying how online, multimedia cases can be used to improve preservice teacher education. This study, which spans four campuses in the United States, collects data on the uses of the cases in preservice literacy education courses and their impact on new classroom teachers. The CTELL project provides excellent opportunities for student interns to become intimately familiar with a large-scale research project on the impact of technology in higher education. We are seeking a student intern to help with the collection and analysis of a large body of data, as well as writing up findings for a variety of purposes. Candidates should be interested in research design, data collection, and analysis and have excellent spoken and written communication skills. Through working with the CTELL project, student interns will get a chance to experience research from the inside and have an impact on the use and development of future technologies.

Reach the World

Curriculum Development Intern

In today¡¦s high-tech, global society, no student should have to learn from a dated textbook alone. Imagine a day when teachers consider it a matter of course to use the Internet and technology tools to connect their students to real people, accomplishing real journeys, in the real world. This is RTW¡¦s premise, and mandate for growth. Our vision is that one day all schools, in all communities, will have the resources, training, and research-based evidence they need to incorporate ¡§connected learning¡¨ ¡V i.e., interaction with online personalities and the opportunity to drive the course of Internet-based journeys ¡V into the curriculum as an essential teaching tool.
In the fall of 2004, Reach the World will launch its next adventure in education: the third around-the-world Voyage of Makulu, a 43-foot sailboat. On board ship, a crew of five educators will use the Internet to take students and teachers on an odyssey across 30,000 ocean miles and into more than 40 countries. What better way for students to learn about world cultures and environments than to follow a real expedition - and better yet, interact with real adventurers through intriguing, online dialog?
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Social-Emotional Learning and/or Gender and Technology

Reasearch Intern

Dr. Robin Stern invites interns to work with her on projects relating to Digital Technologies and Social-Emotional Learning as well as Gender and Technology. As an intern, you will work in collaboration with Robin on research and writing in relation to the aforementioned subjects. The specific projects have the possibility of being tailored to your specific interests.

Regular activities will include gathering research materials, writing and editing of texts, and working with people relating to the projects. The activities performed by the intern may vary according to the intern. s experience as well as the needs for the period of the internship.

The internship can be taken for 2 credits (10 hours), and there is the possibility for continuation of work after the semester for pay. The hours are flexible and will be agreed upon between Robin and the intern