by Jeff Ream | Jun 13, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, counseling technology series, free, geek, google docs, jeffrey ream, school counselor, survey, technology, thecounselinggeek, tutorial, video blog
…o pay attention and learn something new. It will boost your data gathering skills and information base substantially. Below the video – I have embedded the form from the video using the embed method described. Please feel free to take the short survey to experience the user side of the form feature and see the end results. I have shared the form tool and the help page link that you can access if you are having problems or want to learn more. I am…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 19, 2012 | activity, counseling, coursera, free, geek, jeffrey ream, learning, pro-d, professional development, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips
…u probably won’t be able to get salary scale credit for these classes, as you don’t get actual college credit (but you do get a certificate of completion, valuable knowledge and skills, and a feeling of self-accomplishment). Check it out and in the next few days, I will be back with a look at Coursera.org …
by Jeff Ream | Aug 8, 2012 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, interview, Interview Series, learning, professional development, school counselor, tips
…r some kudos for reaching out to help school counselors improve their tech skills. This interview was done using Skype and recorded with Camtasia. Please forgive us for a few technical glitches in the video as the connection became unstable a time or two during the video, but overall – the interview and technology was fairly successful. I look forward to bringing you further interviews in the coming months – I am personally looking forward to inte…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 16, 2012 | counseling, interview, job hunt, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips
…your posture and body language. Counselors – use your SOLER and attending skills you learned. Sit up straight, face the speaker, make eye contact, don’t close your body language, etc. It helps. Last but not least – come prepared to give specific examples You will be asked to give specific examples in 9 out of 10 interviews you go to so try to think of some good ones from your past that can possibly be applied to many situations. Create a list and…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 31, 2012 | job hunt, look back, portfolio, pro-d, professional development, Review, technology, thanks, thecounselinggeek
…ications (resume, cover letter, transcripts) and showcase my technological skills at the same time. Yesterday, I made a new portfolio for my counseling career. I have an interview in a few days and will be bringing this with me to give to the panel (on inexpensive zip drives). The video below shows you how I storyboard and created the portfolio, so you can create your own… [ Full Article ] 4. The SCOPE Blogroll: Inspiration for Back to School! Dr…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 30, 2013 | 21st century skills, Back to School, calendar, Counseling Tech, dropbox, google docs, Linky Party, school counseling on air, SCOA, technology, tips
…onomic and Hispanic families. Another big goal of mine is to improve study skills. I (this will be covered in a future blog post) am kicking off a large campaign to increase the time spent studying across the board, called the “1 to 2”. I am hoping to enact a cultural shift that creates an expectation that all students spend at least 1 to 2 hours minimum per night studying and doing homework. In my experience, many students do not understand the d…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 4, 2013 | #scchat, ANFSCD, counseling, school counselor, thecounselinggeek
…realized that I am far from prepared and confident in my grief counseling skills. Granted, this is an area I hope I don’t get the opportunity to become an expert in, but I need to know more in order to respond effectively. Luckily, our district and my fellow counselors/psychs descended on the two sites to provide support and there was an overwhelming amount of knowledge and skill between the two schools to help grieving students that I fell into…
by Jeff Ream | Dec 29, 2013 | #scchat, CASC, jeffrey ream, Review, thecounselinggeek, year in review
…ogs, tech tools I have learned about in the last few months, tutorials for skills school counselors can use at school,and I hope to launch a new Udemy course for school counselors for summer 2014. Stay tuned for that. Thank you all for supporting the blog and reading some of the thoughts I have. I hope it is helpful to you because writing them down definitely helps me. Very Merry Christmas and Happy 2014 – may it be a good one for you! The blog au…
