Seminar - No Students Week

This week at my practicum site was not very eventful. The students were having their finals and so the day was shortened. In the morning, we had a BIP planning meeting with a teacher, which was very helpful to me. It was my first time in a BIP planning meeting and I was able to see the tools that they use to decide what type of intervention plan should go into place. The sheet divided behaviors into categories that helped to determine the function of the behavior. I had always wondered how teachers did that, as this particular tool was not discussed in my FBA class.

The next period, my supervisor and I met with a teacher to discuss the ED research project I am conducting. We formulated many of the questions to go into the survey for post-secondary students and discussed the methodology for gathering this data. We decided that we would try to contact the students by e-mail and have them fill out a web survey. I contacted my school psychology department and have found out that I will be able to use the university survey software to do this. This was great news as I think this survey software will help greatly in aggregating the data. We set a date for our proposal to be in 2 weeks, which should be enough time for me to write things up.

The final period was spent working on the financial aid resource list I mentioned last week. I was able to finalize most of the details and send it off to the social service team for review. I hope that this tool will be helpful to the team and has the information they were looking for. I will find out Friday, if this was the case. Overall, this week was productive, proving that a school psychologist's job is never over even without the students there.