Throughout January and February, Andrea (my fantastic supervisor at Joyner) and I conducted “Minute Meetings”. These Minute Meetings consisted of short meetings with each student during which we asked four or five questions. Questions asked students to reflect on their school year thus far, what they want to be when they grow up, if there are any issues they need to speak with Andrea or myself about, etc.
As an intern and still fairly new to Joyner, these minute meetings were extremely valuable in terms of getting to know a wide range of students and allowing the students to get to know me...now I just have to remember all of their names!
Also, as a school counseling technology trainee (Andrea is highly knowledgeable when it comes to all things related to technology and school counseling) I was enlightened as to the endless posibilities of google docs during this experience. Andrea created a survey through google docs for each of the grade levels. We then setup shop outside of classrooms, pulled students one-by-one and allowed them to use iPads to answer the survey questions. Google docs then compiles data by grade level and question, oh the possibilities!
