School Psychologists

Familiarize yourself with Pennsylvania Special Education Law and Policies. They will likely ask you questions about what assessments you would use given a certain academic or behavioral referral questions. They tend to do comprehensive evaluation for every student. They will ask you how you deal ...

Familiarize yourself with Pennsylvania Special Education Law and Policies. They will likely ask you questions about what assessments you would use given a certain academic or behavioral referral questions. They tend to do comprehensive evaluation for every student. They will ask you how you deal ...

I arrived at the school at promptly 8:15 every morning. Then, there were staff meetings which included going over tasks that needed to be completed, and reports from the day before. Each day was different. It was a lot of shadowing social workers, observing students in classrooms, and shadowing/ ...

Most importantly, read the Special Education Code! Also, familiarize yourself with the several different acronyms associated with special education. I always found myself asking what certain acronyms were in my internship.

As an intern in Hillsborough, you are a part of team. You are not only working with your direct supervisor, but the LDTC and Social Worker on the team as well. At first, it is a lot of shadowing and doing everything that your supervisor does. After a couple months, you begin to go off on your own...

Familiarize yourself with Pennsylvania Special Education Law and Policies. They will likely ask you questions about what assessments you would use given a certain academic or behavioral referral questions. They tend to do comprehensive evaluation for every student. They will ask you how you deal ...

Have an understanding of your own view of the role of a school psychologist in Early Childhood and Early Elementary buildings Be able to explain your evaluation plan for children referred for Early On services (assessing fine and gross motor, social development, cognition/early learning) and K-2...

As with any school psychologist job, this position looks different every day. Days could include any of the following: presenting evaluation information at an IEP meeting, observing students, directly assessing students, scoring and writing up evaluation results, leading special education team me...

The role of a school psychologist changes from district to district. The goal of any school psychologist is to help students succeed academically, behaviorally, socially, and emotionally. In most cases, the primary role of a school psychologist is assessment for special education services. At Lak...

Prepare to discuss your theoretical framework and how you use this framework to assess and treat clients. Prepare to talk about your experience working with diverse client populations and how you incorporate multiculturalism into your work. Prepare to discuss how you would assess and treat a stud...

Today I got to 8:15 to catch up on documentation, saw 2 current patients for 50 minute sessions, attended a staff meeting and ate lunch with coworkers, met with a student in suicidal crisis and her mother and assessed her risk level and began treatment planning, met with my supervisee for an hour...