Alachua County Public Schools Internship
Tuesday September 19, 2023
In the Spring 2023 semester, Alachua County Public Schools partnered with the Department of History to create a new internship: Curriculum Development in K-12 Social Studies Education. In Spring 2023, the internship focused on writing curriculum on women’s history. Jon Rehm, the Alachua County Public Schools Curriculum Specialist in Social Studies, oversaw the internship. The four student interns worked to create curriculum guides for each grade level. The guides provide teachers with historical topics and primary sources for classroom use. As students in the Department of History, the interns brought the knowledge they gained in the classroom to provide unique perspectives. Rehm said, “They could really expand the topics and make connections.” The students also deployed their awareness of key primary and secondary sources that they could access in the university’s libraries, found key passages, and provided them for teachers.
