Field Experience

  • Julia Wang (bottom row, center) acts as co-director of Camp Kesem at Yale, a free week-long sleepaway camp for kids struggling with a parent's cancer.
  • Nicole Alleyne working as a field instructor at Camp Fire Wilani, an outdoors school in Oregon
  • Tadea Martin-Gonzalez (bottom row, left) taught Geometry to incoming 9th graders at Breakthrough Miami.
  • Hong Bui presents research conducted as part of the University of Wisconsin Madison's Education Research Program
  • Ana Barros interns with Teach for America in Louisiana
  • Ethan Young teaches high school students about cephalopods for Splash Yale workshops.
  • Chris Rice teaches history on board the Amistad ship in New Haven
  • Alejandra Corona Ortega (standing in back) works as a Public School Intern at the Fair Haven school
  • Edward Maza is a docent at the Yale Art Gallery
  • Wayne Zhang co-directs the US Grant summer enrichment program in New Haven
  • Annie Chen teaches coding with New Haven students
March 18, 2024

All Education Studies Scholars complete a field experience: a prolonged work/volunteer experience in education research, policy, or practice. Field experiences are either full-time summer placements (at least 8 weeks) or part-time, full-year placements (several hours per week during the academic year). They can take place before or after acceptance to the Scholars Intensive Certificate.

Students have fulfilled this requirement in many different ways—as tutors, camp counselors, research assistants, and interns at a variety of organizations. Read student-created guides to courses and internships here.