Personal Reflection On The Upward Bound Program

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Ms Moya Malcolm was my counselor when I was in the Upward Bound Program and I’ve known her almost six years. Before the interview we chatted a bit about how I was doing in school and about the program. This was to avoid the questions from feeling to sudden or rushed. I feel that my main strength as an interviewer was that I asked questions that were specific to the program. Being that I’ve gone through the program myself, I am quite familiar with the ways things work in the program and I made sure that I used that to my advantage. Ms Malcolm even commanded me on the fact that the questions I asked were very specific. I know that as a junior and senior in the program, you are required to have a meeting with your counselor and your parents …show more content…
Her answer was that “low income parents do feel that me asking them about their financial standing is odd and even a bit invasive”. Another strength of mine in this speech was my listening. I made sure I was keeping eye contact with her, nodding to her responses as well was briefly …show more content…
Now that I know that I might have to handle data when learning about advising and counseling in my Master’s program, I’m going to start familiarizing myself with it now. I will start by doing research on the data that surrounds counseling to see what it could be like. I also learned that I have to master the use of body language to relay a message as this can come to be useful with non-english speakers. Furthermore, I’ll certainly have to learn how to be clear and concise in my speech because i can get pretty convoluted when I talk. This could be done by possibly taking another oral communication course in college. Lastly, I will have to practice patience when confronting people. I could do this by getting more involved in group projects to get more experience dealing with different people and possible

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