The LieSS Internship: Preparing Student Teachers to Teach in a Superdiverse Society

This newly designed internship course is part of the teacher education program at KU Leuven School of Education (Flanders).

The resource consists of an interview-style document answering four key questions:

1. The general goals of the LieSS internship
2. The position of the LieSS course in relation to the other courses (with diversity as a theme throughout the entire programme, an approach also emphasized in this ED-TED podcast with Piet Van Avermaet)
3. The techniques for the intervision sessions
4. Training sessions at the LiMBO Academy

In addition, the resource includes a goals-and-attitudes dossier. This document outlines what student teachers are expected to achieve by the end of their internship, including mandatory, elective, and personal goals, as well as attitudes.

This resource is useful for both teacher educators responsible for internships and for the head of teacher education programme. It offers inspiration for why such an internship matters, how it can be designed, and what its intended outcomes should be.

It also connects to the insights shared in the ED-TED podcast with professor Orhan Agirdag, who offered suggestions on how internships within teacher education programmes should be structured, suggestions to which the LieSS internship appears to respond.

This resource is available in both Dutch and English.

Creators: Randy Samyn & Evelien Flamez
Affiliation: KU Leuven School of Education

Access to the resource (Dutch): link
Access to the resource (English): link

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