>> My name is Aaron Burke.
[phonetic] I am a school Psychologist and I work
for Headfield School District in Lancaster County here.
And presently I am one of seven school psychologist in the district.
And primarily my job consists of a lot of consultation so working with parents,
working with teachers, working with administrators,
working with other student service team members.
And really the overall goal in all that consultation is to work with students
and to help meet their needs as best we can in the school setting.
So that's the main thing that takes up the majority of my time.
But also, you know, in our training for school Psychology we spend a lot of time working on how
to administer Psychoeducational testing for students.
And that is in order to identify potential learning disabilities or autism,
emotional disturbance and then also giftedness on the opposite end of the spectrum.
So I spend a lot of time doing that as well.
Also in my role I am lucky enough to work in intermediate center
as well as an alternative Ed setting.
So it is a little alternative in terms of that I'm not doing the traditional role
of a school psychologist in the alternative Ed program.
So I do get to work directly with students a lot in that.
I provide some counseling services for them and focus a lot on the social
and emotional needs for those students.
So I spend a lot of one on one time with those students.
The other aspect of my job that I spend a lot of time doing is administering,
or rather instructing students in social skills instructions.
So students who are in special Ed classes, we focus in on the areas of need for them in terms
of their social and emotional deficits and try to develop those skills and hope
that they can take the skills that we're teaching them and generalize them
into the regular Ed setting or at home and things like that.
It is the schools Ed, yeah.
I mean I work, I'm actually hired under a teacher's contract so I work a similar schedule
that a teacher would but yes, I split my day every day.
I go between the two programs that I work so lucky for me I work in an alternative Ed setting
at the secondary level but I also work at the elementary level
so I combine those two schedules so some days my schedule is a little bit longer
than a typical teacher would work.
But I do go back and forth between those two programs every day
so that presents some challenges but also you know it splits up the day a little bit
and makes it go a little faster as well.
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