Field Experience Program
Field Experience Program
Welcome to the Field Experience Program (FEP) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The Field Experience Program (FEP) is an internship for credit program open to all students at HGSE. This custom-designed course provides the opportunity to become a more reflective practitioner, apply course work to practice, do research, develop new skills, and explore different kinds of work.
The partnership between the FEP office and Career Services Office (CSO) helps to connect students and internship sites. Students may identify their own internships or use the Hired database and other FEP resources to locate an internship site. Internship sites range from schools, colleges, labs, research organizations, public agencies, museums, private corporations, non-profit organizations as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.
The on-site supervision provided by the FEP Mentor (internship supervisor) is one of the most important features of this unique program. HGSE students find FEP internships so valuable because of the leadership of their mentors, including their active oversight of internship assignments and and interest in supporting their career growth.
For Students: Important information for all students considering an FEP
For Employers/FEP Mentors: Steps for submitting an internship opportunity along with some helpful tips for internship supervisors
Impact On Education
.jpg) | T.J. Martinez, Ed.M.'08"For kids [and] their parents who are in cycles of poverty, violence, and even abuse, [we see] as we come to know their stories. This [opportunity] is something that will break that." -- T.J. Martinez, Cristo Rey Jesuit School. |
 | Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06Some have been incarcerated, others are one strike shy of life in prison. College was the last place any of them expected to end up. But it's the one place that Noel Gomez, Ed.M.'06, wants to keep them. |
.jpg) | Raygine DiAquoiShe was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended public schools until the sixth grade when her parents, wanting her to have every opportunity, sent her to the Hewitt School, a private school for girls on the Upper East Side. |
.jpg) | Shimon Waronker, Ed.D. CandidateWhen Waronker walked into J.H.S. 022 in the South Bronx, N.Y. to become its seventh principal in two years, he had reason to be worried. Instead, he was determined to take back the school, starting with the gangs. |
