My Personal Internship Journal – Week 8

•Questions you have with which your colleagues may be able to provide help and support

When I first started working on my advocacy plan I thought that I knew what I needed to do but after looking over different plan on the internet and receiving feedback from my professor I think that I need to do some more resource.  My question to my colleagues would be if anyone else had a problem with their plan and if they have any advice on how to make it more a plan and not a paper.  That is where I am having the problem, I make everything into a paper and I feel that I have to rearrange how I am making my plan.  In addition, I would like to know if anyone has any personal experience with Early Intervention that they would like to share with me that I can share with the teachers that I would like to do in-service training with when I present my advocacy plan.

•Resources and information you are seeking

The best resources and information that I can seek is anything at this time that anyone feels like they are willing to share.  With there only being three weeks of class left and our presentations do next week I can use all of the help that I can get.  I think that my colleagues have been giving some great resource throughout the discussions and I have been trying to incorporate them into my presentation. I think that this is the best resource and information that I can seek so far.  I feel that I need to thank my colleagues for all the help even if they do not realize that I have taken it, thank you all.

•Resources and/or information you have found helpful and insightful

While I was doing my research, I was able to find a few resources that I think will help me.  The first resource was a sample of an advocacy plan that I found was on the website www.careusa.org.  This is actually a pdf file that is from a book on outlining am advocacy plan and the link that took me to this page was http://www.careusa.org/getinvolved/advocacy/tools/english_02.pdf.  I think that this page will help me make sure that I rework my advocacy plan into a workable and understandable plan.  Another, resource that I plan to use to re-work my advocacy plan is from a website that has a blank advocacy action plan that can be used as a template.  I actually thought that this was the best resource that I could find because I had such a hard time with my plan.  The website is http://www.webjunction.org/documents/webjunction/Advocacy_Action_Plan_Template.html.  If anyone else is having trouble with the plan this template is a great resource.