Step-By-Step Learning By Doing - SIT Graduate Degrees and Professional Programs

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Step-By-Step Learning By Doing

SIT includes the practical aspect of learning at the heart of, not separate from or at the end of, the total learning experience:

First, you will do the on-campus work.

Then, as an intern, you will apply what you have learned in the field.

Finally, and here again is a distinguishing element of the SIT program: You will return to campus to refine what you have learned, bringing your field- and classroom-based experience and knowledge into a synthesis of learning that defines your degree.

Stage One: Learn

In the first academic term (bullet one above), you meet new ideas, rethink old ones, and set out what you have held to be true about teaching and learning. This is done collaboratively with your fellow students, who soon become part of your professional community and ongoing network.

SIT's MAT curriculum emphasizes the process of teaching and learning through a combination of experienced-based exercises, structured discussions, group work and lectures. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the teaching process in addition to proven, individualized classroom strategies.

Stage Two: Apply

The teaching internship provides an opportunity for you to become professionally and culturally immersed in a classroom, a school, and a community.

Internship selection is guided closely by faculty and staff and may be competitive. For those in our summer program the internship will be done on familiar ground: the home classroom.

In keeping with SIT's commitment to the role of the language teacher in effective communication, your internship will give you the opportunity to learn about the part played by the English language in the lives of diverse learners and, consequently, to examine closely your own role as a language teacher.

Wherever your internship is done, an SIT-trained supervisor or faculty member will observe and work with you to ensure that your teaching is what you would like it to be.

Note: Most internship sites offer some form of support, from room and board to a modest stipend or travel allowance.

Stage Three: Refine

Following your internship, you begin the second academic term. You reflect on and analyze what you have experienced and accomplished during your internship and use these reflections to refine your practice of teaching and to help you continue to grow in the profession.

The term culminates in a vibrant student-run teaching conference at which you and your peers present and critique ideas and practices about teaching and learning.

In this process of reexamination and redefining, you come to understand that, working with the invaluable resources and cooperation of faculty and peers, you have become the force by which excellent teaching and learning will be generated in your classroom.

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