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I am greatly interested in finding a career that incorporates both my education and psychology majors.

To help remedy this interest, this past semester I participated in a 180-hour, unpaid internship at a local

I shadowed a licensed social worker who does many jobs including the following: leading social groups for

students who need a sense of belonging, speaking with self-referred students who are in need of emotional support,

mediating and conciliating arguments between students, contacting teachers and parents in regards to students’

behaviors, etc. It was great to be able to see to the psychological needs of children in an educational setting.

                        Towards the end of my internship, I created an anti-bullying presentation for all of the six- graders at

                    Manchester Intermediate School. I studied different techniques students can utilize when they are being

                    bullied as well as how to teach kids how to become more assertive and less aggressive. The presentation was a

                    success and the students could easily relate to some of the ideas I left them with. Afterwards, I became more

                    interested in bullying and wondered if there were some ways teachers could incorporate certain skills that would

                    help reduce bullying in and out of the classroom. You can view my presentation notes here.

* Head Start Program, laketon, Indiana and Manchester Elementary School, North Manchester, Indiana, 2011

~ Completed systematic observation of the gross motor skills of 3 to 5-year olds and compared the results with

* Manchester Elementary School, North Manchester, Indiana 2009, "Talk it Out Program."

~A three-time, once a week program teaching second graders how to talk about feelings

* Visits to Bunch Elementary school and Whitney Young School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 2009

~While learning about the Montessori and Reggio Emilia methods of teaching, my Introduction to early

childhood class visited a couple area schools to obverse these methods in action.

~Completed a 20-hour case study on a five-year-old with attention to biophysical, cognitive, and psychosocial

~During Introduction to Teaching I visited a local junior high school art and home economics class and

learned about the struggles of teaching students with disabilities alongside students without disabilities