{"id":212142,"date":"2019-07-14T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?p=212142"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:09:15","slug":"montclair-hs-internship-funderburk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/2019\/07\/14\/montclair-hs-internship-funderburk\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair HS Student of Italian Interns for Inserra Chair and Italian Program at MSU (May-June 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linking high school, university and pre-professional experiences through Italian has increasingly become a central goal of the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies<\/a>‘ initiatives, in collaboration with the Italian Program (MLL). The latest instantiation of this agenda is an internship for a Montclair High School student as part of the MHS internship program for the senior year. Interestingly, the linkage this first round has also been connected to another activity – the Summer Italian intensive Course for College Credit<\/a> – designed to bring together different education levels to open new learning and long-term professional opportunities to students in the field of Italian, and thus world languages in general.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, Lara Funderburk<\/a>, a Montclair High School student of Italian, completed an internship with the Inserra Chair in Spring 2019 after attending the Summer Italian Intensive Course in 2018<\/a>. Lara’s internship project was aimed at collecting information about the first two editions of the summer course (2017<\/a> and 2018<\/a>) and, in particular, about the impact of the course on the students’ subsequent choice of studying Italian in the last year of HS or after their HS diploma. <\/p><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n

Working under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Fiore (Inserra Endowed Chair), and alongside a HS teacher who serves as summer course coordinator, Patti Grunther, Lara\u00a0Funderburk reached out to students to learn about their post-course paths. The information she gathered helped improve the entry and exit surveys of the 2019 edition of the course, in order to better represent the course as a platform for future commitment to studying the language via the AP Italian class and exam, as well as the choice of a minor or major in Italian after graduation.<\/p>\n

“Lara’s example speaks of a virtuous circle in which students – even those who are temporarily on our campus – can become active participants in the analysis of pedagogical processes, and help produce reflections on them. We plan on making this internship into a regular opportunity: we see in it a first step into a series of activities able to strengthen the ties between Montclair State University and Montclair High School, especially in the field of world languages,” Dr. Teresa Fiore<\/a>, Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies states.<\/p>\n

Lara participated in the Summer Italian Intensive Course in 2018, after completing 3 years of Honors Italian at Montclair High School. \u201cAs a participant of the summer 2018 course I am grateful for the opportunity to provide support for this year\u2019s program, including data collection and assistance in the planning process,” Lara Funderburk stated.<\/p>\n

“The goal of the project Lara worked on was to identify the level of impact of a bridge course that offers college credit, and thus assess more at large the importance of incentive programs like these ones in the promotion of world languages, where Italian is a case study,” Patti Grunther<\/a> explained.\u00a0The data gathered by Lara Funderburk will constitute the basis for further research on the summer course in view of conference presentations and a possible article on the role of bridge initiatives in emphasizing the key role of languages in education in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

The summer course in Italian is a one-of-a-kind course designed for high school students on a university campus, available at Montclair State in an intensive format. The course has been offered for two years in a row: its third edition in 2019<\/a> includes for the first time a residential option to better serve the high school population of New Jersey and the Tri-State Area at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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