Supervisor Reflection

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The one thing that I wish I could have done was sit in on some of the more serious counseling that happened between my supervisor and some students. I was not allowed to observe/participate in these sessions due to Indiana law. However, if I was in a graduate program I would be allowed to sit in these situations and possible learn new techniques, methods, and ideas on how to handle these situations. I was allowed to sit on some cases that were not super serious, but that was only if I had permission form the parent, student, and my supervisor. My only other concern was that earlier on me and my supervisor had a hard time communicating to each other, but we resolved the issue quickly and have been in constant contact ever since. If there are …show more content…

Just from what I seen from this experience it seems like teachers would make my supervisors job unnecessarily difficult. There were never any major issues, but it would be just little things that could be completely avoidable if the teachers would just follow instructions provide by my supervisor. A common incident would be when gathering I-STEPS they would never be in alphabetical order when it could take the teacher not more than a few minutes to do that for us. If all the teachers did this then what would have taken them a few minutes takes us a minimum of at least thirty minutes to an hour due to the number of students out of order. The students love working with me and my supervisor and always stop by to say hello and usually small talk about each other’s day. I have to clarify though that not all the staff/facility were ungrateful. There were just a few incidents I noticed during this experience that showed me that guidance counselors should be a little more appreciated because they work as hard, if not harder than anyone in the building. Something that amazed me was the simple fact that my supervisor literally knew everyone and everything about anyone. I would be sitting down at the table doing some research on methods of counseling and they would just begin talking about a student and discuss everything about that person. When we go to conferences they take notes about important facts

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