Personal Narrative: My Practicum At Phillips Graduate University

It is hard to believe that I am writing about the end of my practicum when I feel like I am just starting it. There are many things I like about my practicum at Phillips Graduate University. We started in July with three hour training classes on Mondays. My supervisor Robin is very knowledgeable about working with children and has provided us with lots of pertinent information. Mid-September, we started working in the preschool classrooms. In my cohort at Phillips there are students who work at Head start and students who work at local preschools. Usually the Spanish speaking student go to Headstart because most of the parents of the students only speak only Spanish. My supervisor didn’t have enough Spanish speaking students so asked me train at the Headstart School which I did …show more content…
Another problem is that headshart used to allow each parent to have three sessions with a counselor, which wasn’t a lot, but now they reduced to two sessions, a beginning and a closing session which isn’t much time to do anything. Robin found around Spanish speaking student, but at told me that she decided she would keep me at Headstart because she didn’t have another English speaking school for me to go to. While I enjoyed my time at Headstart, I let her know that I didn’t think I would get enough experience there. So, she found me a wonderful school called the Weekday School which is located in Northridge. I have now been there for two weeks and once again, Robin wants me to spend the first four weeks getting to know the students. This is why I feel like I am just starting my practicum. Other than interacting with the children during their normal day at preschool, I haven’t seen or worked with any clients. So I think the most difficult thing about my practicum is having assignments in class that don’t relate to what I am doing in my