Paraprofessional Learning Experience

Learning Objective 3 for me was “How to interact with students as a paraprofessional”. From the very beginning of the internship I have interacted with students in several different capacities. However, the most time I spent with students was as a Peer Success Coach. In this role I was assigned five students (four are first time first year students and one is a junior transfer student). How I interacted with each had similarities and some had vast differences. The main similarity was getting the student comfortable on campus. This was fairly easy for me because all of my students were very comfortable with their majors, roommates, and other issues that we as Peer Success Coaches look for when we initially meet with our students. With my student who is a junior, there was a situation that arose that if I didn’t act quickly the student wouldn’t have had the classes they needed to receive admission to their major, but with using our resources and being vigilant on my part the situation was handled, but that situation like other instances of my internship gave me that quick snapshot of what most professional go through on a …show more content…
Initially, this task was pretty difficult because the tutors were a different kind of student than those I work with as a Peer Success Coach and others that I’ve had the privilege to work with. What I did was I started to get the tutors involved in the trainings, so they would get a different perspective that they would if I was just talking at the for the entire hour, after that the flow of the training was easier for me as well as the