The interview

Today was the day. I got up and purdied up, and practiced my "tell us about yourself" speech. I was amazingly nervous but managed to keep it together. The panel was HUGE (4 school psychs and 1 special ed director). They asked a lot of questions, here is what I remember:

• What experience do you have that you think prepares you to be a School Psychologist Intern?
• What sort of help could you give a student coming into the 3rd grade who was new to the country from Mexico and had sporadic academic experience while in Mexico.
• How would you go about working with a teacher who is going to need to have modifications made in her classroom, that may require even more work on the teachers part, knowing that you are not a teacher.
• What would you do if a parent submitted a request in writing for the student to be assessed for learning disabilities. The student has been found to be in the 50th percentile academically via CBM?
• What's the difference between CBM and Standardized Norm based measures?
• What is a Functional Analysis and how do you do one?
• What is your experience in group and individual counseling, how competent do you feel in performing counseling.
  

There were quite a few other questions, but that's all I can recall at the moment. I actually felt like it went pretty well and that I was able to provide competent sounding answers to their questions. I actually even had quite a bit of the experience they were looking for (Functional Analysis stuff and counseling) and it seemed that my current job as a social worker was a definite plus for them. So, my fingers are crossed and now I will wait until I hear the result next week! I heard there were 13 applicants, so even though I feel I did well, it's a tough call on if I will be good enough to beat out that many others!