KORN LEARNING, ASSESSMENT, AND SOCIAL SKILLS CENTER

1094 534 Bailey Education Complex
1122 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37996-3452
Phone: (865) 974-6395

The Korn Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills Center (KLASS Center) is a center housed at the University of Tennessee to assist students who struggle academically or socially; to train and assist parents and/or teachers to identify, prevent, and attend to a child’s academic, behavioral, or social problems; and to provide research and training opportunities for better offering these services. The KLASS Center provides clinical and outreach services to students, parents, and teachers primarily within the Knoxville area while also providing faculty and graduate students at the University of Tennessee opportunities to conduct research and train for service provision within the field. More specifically, the KLASS Center offers the following services: assessment and diagnostic testing, interventions and skill-building opportunities to address problems that may interfere with academic and social skills, academic tutoring, limited counseling services, and consultation and training for parents, teachers, and other professionals.

The KLASS Center assumed editorship of the Journal of Evidenced-Based Practices in Schools in 2010. The intern(s) at the KLASS Center will have the opportunity to work in both the research and service provision aspects of the Center. The intern will provide assessment and diagnostic testing and will have the opportunity to develop further intervention and consultation services. The intern will also be expected to provide training opportunities for parents and professionals within the community. Furthermore, the intern may choose to participate in research opportunities that are ongoing within the KLASS Center as well as research in area school systems. Interns have opportunities to interact with faculty members at the University, as well as psychologists who are practicing within the Center’s clinic. Interns will be expected to provide supervised supervision to pre-doctoral practicum students who are providing services in the clinic. Supervision is considered an important component of the overall internship program. One-to-one individual supervision from doctoral level licensed psychologists is provided at least one hour a week with at least one additional hour a week of supervision from a licensed psychologist being provided by Cherokee Health Systems, Inc. additionally, two hours per week of group supervision from a licensed psychologist is also provided. The supervision group is composed of all of the interns in the Consortium.

It is possible for the intern to receive up to 3 hours a semester of graduate internship credit through the University of Tennessee. The Consortium conducts the two hours per week of group supervision in such a manner that it meets the University’s requirements for graduate credit. If an intern is interested in receiving graduate credit for this time, she or he needs to make an arrangement directly with the University. Requesting graduate credit for the group supervision is not required of the intern. This is simply an additional benefit to the intern if it is of value for her or him. The KLASS Center is sponsoring a halftime internship position for the 2010-2011 internship year.

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