In the sprit of Thanksgiving, I am going to tell a tale about over-helping. A few years ago at one of my middle schools, I…
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I once went on a blind date in which I was asked the following question about my job as a school psychologist: “So, what’s your…
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School Psychologists have many roles to play in the schools. On any given day, we are counselors, advisors, consultants, program developers, observers, yard duty stand-ins,…
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Aha. After many painful hours of searching YouTube for awful teacher-student interactions, I found a clip to illustrate how I might do an observation and…
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One of the jobs of a school psychologist is to go into the classroom and observe students who are having difficulties. It is one of…
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What is a School Psychologist anyway? Personally, I don’t recall any school psychologists in the schools I attended growing up. Perhaps I wasn’t the type…
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