School Psychologist Interns - Special Education

Education

The Office of Special Education for Albemarle County Public Schools offer a specialist internship for eligible candidates in school psychology. Students interested in applying for an internship with Albemarle County Public Schools must submit the following materials electronically via the on-line application process:

• Completed on-line application
• Cover letter expressing why the applicant is interested in the internship program;
• A resume or vita (preferred),
• Three professional recommendations, and
• A psychological evaluation report redacted to protect confidential information.

The Office of Special Education for Albemarle County Public Schools offer a specialist internship for eligible candidates in school psychology. Students interested in applying for an internship with Albemarle County Public Schools must submit the following materials electronically via the on-line application process:

• Completed on-line application
• Cover letter expressing why the applicant is interested in the internship program;
• A resume or vita (preferred),
• Three professional recommendations, and
• A psychological evaluation report redacted to protect confidential information.

In Albemarle County Public Schools, we work together as a team to end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high-quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student!

Under supervision, provides professional educational and psychological services to students to include classroom interventions, student assessments and placement recommendations, individual and group psychological services, consultation services to staff and parents, and critical incident intervention. Complex work is performed within specific program objectives and policies; employee communicates with teachers and other school personnel to plan work and coordinates with others to ensure service effectiveness.

Contacts are made regularly and frequently with instructional and administrative personnel, as well as with community resource personnel.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Provides academic and behavioral intervention services for students in collaboration with classroom teachers.
• Develops and refines skills in understanding and applying research data and research studies, as it relates to interventions and support at the school level.
• Consults and assists teachers to determine and implement appropriate academic and behavioral interventions in classrooms.
• Consults with other psychologists to enhance and broaden the internship experience.
• Performs psycho-educational assessments of students, observations, data collection, interpretation and analyses.
• Participates in the School Based Intervention Team and eligibility meetings to prescribe student interventions and assist the team to identify students for special education services.
• Collect data regarding student behaviors and recommend appropriate instructional modifications to develop responsible thinking and decision-making skills in students. Identify and implement appropriate interventions for students in need of additional assistance.
• Consults and collaborates with parents, teachers, students, and administrators.
• Works with critical incident team in the schools, including reaction to illness, deaths, and abuse.
• Work in a collaborative manner with peers and school personnel to ensure successful and efficient transitioning for students to return to his/her home school to include the creation of Transition Plans.
• Provides individual and group counseling / psychological services.
• Develops and coordinates various psychological services available to students and staff.
• Present professional development for administrators and teachers on behavior intervention, substance abuse, anger management, as well as other topics and support the staff in the implementation of their new learning.
• Assist…