Modern reforms in an education system led in particular and to the fact that at each school there is a rate of the school psychologist. Work at school for the psychologist interesting, creative, very versatile and the most important – necessary. It is more and more teachers, directors of schools and parents of pupils realize extraordinary usefulness of the psychologist directly at school. But not all persons interested to work at this position know how to become the school psychologist.
Instruction
1. For a start, you need to get profile higher education as a psychologist, an educational psychologist or a social worker. No other expert has the right to work at a position of the school psychologist. Form of education (day, evening or correspondence) is not of particular importance. In the course of training try to do training at schools. So you will be able to start acquaintances and to get necessary experience.
2. Search of a vacancy. There are several ways. Let's consider each of them. For a start – ask all the acquaintances. For certain, there will be the one who works at school. Even if at school where your acquaintance works, the psychologist is not required, then this person all the same will help you: he through the director, head teachers or the available school psychologist will distribute about you information. "Gossip hotline" remains nearly the best way of job search presently for the psychologist including school.
3. Pass personally on schools. It is desirable to communicate directly with directors. It is better to do it in the spring: then directors will knows how many rates of the psychologist will be open the next academic year. You can glance also in the native school where you once studied. It is very contradictory way. On the one hand, you are known and can easily be employed. With another – (let and graduated school many years ago) it is difficult to often former school student to become in the opinion of the teachers the professional. You can also get acquainted with the working school psychologist. He for certain too possesses information what school looks for this expert.
4. One more way to learn about the psychologist's vacancy – to visit the website of department of education. There you will find the database of vacancies on each school. But even if there the vacancy is not specified, it does not mean that at any school do not look for the psychologist. Very often the rate is divided among themselves by several teachers until employment of the psychologist.
5. Find the methodical center of psychologists of the area. All school psychologists of one area have the administration out of school – the methodologist who supervises their work. The certain person working at school in the same area can be the methodologist, or several people on the basis of any center can carry out methodical maintenance (for example, the center of additional education in this area). The easiest to learn contacts of the methodologist through already working school psychologists. Also the methodologist can render the invaluable help at the initial stages of work of the school psychologist: will share experience, techniques, plans of work, etc.