COLLEGE OJT GUIDELINES UNDER COVID 19 PANDEMIC PERIOD

This guideline will only take effect within the school year 2020-2021 for all college students unless
sooner repealed, amended, or rescinded based on the continuing changes in the national situation.

In many cases, academic programs that require internships are coming up with alternative
projects, experiences or programs that can meet the minimum standards of an internship. The following
are the different options or suggestions for internship program

A. ON-SITE INTERNSHIP (Not recommended at this moment)

AMAES and its branches must thoroughly assess whether the hosts and the activities are safe
enough and can prevent the students from being infected by the corona virus. If the internship
activities can be conducted by abiding the instruction on physical and the institution and student
believe that they would be safe to conduct the activities, then the internship can be conducted.

B. REMOTE / VIRTUAL/ MICRO- INTERNSHIP

These types of internship are those in which work is completed off-site. Communication may
happen through electronic process such as email, online chat, or phone. During this “work from
home” period, these opportunities offer a way for organizations to meet their short- and long-
term business goals, and for students to gain valuable workplace experience to develop their
career competencies.

These could be also a short-term, paid, professional assignments that are similar to those
given to new hires or interns. These projects enable college students, graduate students, and
recent college graduates to demonstrate skills, explore career paths, and build their networks as
they seek the right full-time role.

C. ALTERNATIVE LEARNING OUTPUTS

If OPTIONS A & B are unavailable or undesirable for our students, the institution
need to create alternative programs or learning experiences that are similarly or
related to student’s field of specialization and can meet the minimum standard of an
internship program.
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These are some, but not limited to, suggested alternative activities:

1. Problem- or case-based learning projects that require interns to conduct background research
on a trending world issues related to their fields, interview experts in the field, and prepare a
report or paper that summarizes a solution or approach to the problem.

2. Service or community engaged learning where interns can apply their courses directly with
members of the community or Barangays to conduct a project focused on meeting
authentic real-community needs.

3. Short reflection papers that require interns to reflect on their own progress throughout the
experience, including the successful (or not) achievement of their learning goals, issues or
challenges faced, and things to work on in the future.
4. Projects that focus on important competencies such as communication, teamwork and
problem-solving. These can be embedded in projects mentioned above (e.g., problem-based
learning) or can be emphasized in shorter activities such as virtual presentations or creating
Excel datasets for an assignment

5. Interdisciplinary Learning projects in which students apply skills or investigate issues across
many different subject areas or domains of knowledge that tend to encourage students to
connect their projects to community issues or problems, and to integrate outside-of-school
learning experiences, including activities such as interviews, scientific observations, and
etc.

6. Long-term investigative projects that culminate in a final product, presentation, or performance.

That will require students to select a topic, profession, or social problem that interests them,
conduct research on the subject, maintain a portfolio of findings or results, create a final
product demonstrating their learning acquisition or conclusions (a paper, short film, or
multimedia presentation, for example), and give an oral presentation on the project to a panel
of teachers, experts, and community members who collectively evaluate its quality.