New Year, New Graduate Student
The end of 2018 was a bit of a blur for me. Last semester was my first time supervising a graduate student and balancing the responsibilities of supervisor along with everything else took its toll.I will say that I am grateful for the opportunity and that supervising students is an experience that is mutually beneficial. I am reminded of the recent articles I've read on reverse mentoring. My student brought in fresh ideas, exposed me to new concepts + reminded me what it means to think outside of the box for therapy activities.Despite the hard work, it was such a positive experience that I volunteered to supervise another student for the Spring semester. I already have an idea of what kinds of things I will do differently (Jenn over at Crazy Speech World wrote a great article on creating SLP Intern Welcome Binders.) One of the changes I'll be making is incorporating an interview before the official start date of the placement.Here are the questions I am planning on using for the upcoming interview:
- What brought you to speech-language pathology? What are your professional goals for the next five years?
- What communication disorders are you familiar with? What is your training and experience working with children with autism?
- Are you familiar with assistive technology?
- What formal assessment tools have you used to evaluate clients?
- Describe a challenging case you've had to work on.
- Are you comfortable working in a group therapy setting? How do you handle a group therapy setting consisting of children with diverse needs?
- How would you respond to a parent who believes speech therapy is not helping her child?
- How would you assess non-native English speaking students?
- What are your biggest strengths and your biggest weaknesses?
- Do you have any questions for me?
Do you have your graduate students complete pre-placement interviews? What kinds of questions have you found most helpful during this practice?
