Evaluate Your Professional Growth And Progress Throughout Your Internship Experience

How would you evaluate your professional growth and progress toward becoming a school counselor throughout your internship experience?

I feel that my internship has provided me with the experience that I needed in order to grow as a professional school counselor. The internship gave me the opportunity to practice my skills that I have been learning throughout my master’s program. It has also given me more confidence in my skills as I was given more responsibilities as I got further into my internship. In addition, my internship gave me beneficial information specific to my site and state that will support my counseling. What specific tasks did you identify for yourself?

Throughout my internship some tasks that I wanted to improve on included identifying resources and providing resources to students as needed, reflecting the students’ …show more content…
Being at my internship site will be beneficial because I have built some great positive relationships with teachers, administrators, custodians, and students. One of my goals is to ensure collaboration between myself and the teachers so that I can make sure that I am able to support them as they teach the students. This goes along with my next goal of creating a teacher needs assessment to understand what I can do to help the teachers help the students. Another goal is to start senior graduation checks at the beginning of the year so that students have time to do credit recovery or take ACT or SAT tests, which is a requirement for graduation at our school. Another goal is to meet with all of the students by the first quarter to at least make sure I am familiar with the students and understand their needs. I might do this during guidance lessons and then meet with certain students individually. Another goal is to meet with my administrator and discuss goals with them and go over the school counselor annual agreement so that we can both be on the same