Teacher Externs
"Our teachers should have us, like, solving real problems and actual stuff just like at jobs or whatever... and do it in groups." - Sixteen year-old Waverly-Shell Rock HS junior at the Iowa Math & Science Summit, 2008
Consider the opportunity to be an extern in a business or industry in your community.
- Earn graduate credit while you work, assisted by university faculty and periodic face-to-face or virtual meetings over the course of a 5-week externship.
- Earn a respectable wage while taking advantage of the opportunity to see and use the latest real world applications of your discipline in a business or industry in your community, without having to travel to a distant campus or live in a dorm.
- Productively contribute to the operation of a local industry or business in your community by being a temporary employee in the summer.
- Create lasting partnerships between businesses and industries and your school.
- Give your students real-time career information about businesses and industries right here in Iowa;
- Connect your extern experience directly to content and 21st century skills identified in the Iowa Core Curriculum.
- Share your experience with others at the ISTS and ICTM conferences.
Frequently Asked Questions
2010 Externships Application
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