by Jeff Ream | Oct 25, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips, tools
…Google Slides templates to develop your presentations. Just like when you review a resume – you can tell when someone used the general MS Word resume template. The same thing applies for presentations. It is very easy to create your own “templates” and it provides a welcome relief from the bullet point hum-drum presentation. My first tip is find a high quality background. My go-to source is Freeimages.com for high quality (key point here) and fre…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 1, 2015 | #scchat
…ol Counselor self-care from a distance. That is right – starting today – I am going to be offering free – digital back rubs through the magic of technology. All school counselors need to practice solid self-care and I know that about 8 hours into a day full of ILP meetings, a 504 review, and endless schedule change requests, I sure could use a solid back rub. All you need to do is hit the button below, sit back, and relax. Enjoy the pure bliss o…
by Jeff Ream | Nov 16, 2012 | counseling, interview, job hunt, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, tips
…ties will most benefit our school and the position. I hope that the little review and other side perspective can help those of you looking for work think about what the interviewer is thinking. Be mindful of it when interviewing and if you are ever a part of the interview panel – try to remember how stressful and intimidating it is being the interviewee. Best of luck! The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling Geek. Connect…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 12, 2013 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, guest post, Review, school counselor, technology, tips
…ria and to learn more information. You can also learn about financial aid, review higher education statistics, and even get maps of college campuses. ACT College Search (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/act-college-search/id418007684?mt=8) Not sure exactly where to start with your college search? This free app can help you narrow down your choices based on your preferences. Choose from locations, type, majors, size, cost, or admission factors to ge…
by Jeff Ream | Apr 24, 2013 | 21st century skills, counseling, interview, Interview Series, jeffrey ream, job hunt, professional development, school counselor, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips, tools
…ts. Because we are filling an increasingly vacant position, we started the review process immediately. With only 28 applicants (which seems like many when reviewing applications, but many jobs will have 50-100+), we had about an hour and a half to make our selections to move onto the next step. That breaks down to 3-5 minutes per application. Most employers will have an HR-generated form that the reviewers use for the paper screen, interview, and…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 8, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA 13, counseling, geek, jeffrey ream, RAMP, school counselor, support, teachers, thecounselinggeek, tips
…iew of RAMP/ASCA/National Model, overview of previous accomplishments, and review of my time analysis from EZAnalyze TimeTracker. I created a sweet, easily decyphered infograpic via infogr.am – a free, easily customizable, infogram maker. It won’t let you go too nuts, but is great for presenting data in a new way. The Good: By establishing the CAT, I was able to get input that I would have missed out on otherwise. It is important to know that you…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 27, 2013 | ASCA 13, school counselor, thecounselinggeek, update
…logging, but because we are headed to Europe to visit family and friends for a month following ASCA 13. While abroad, I will be trying to disconnect as much as possible (you may see a tweet or two from me…), but do not fret – I will be back with a review and recap of ASCA 13 in August. Take care of yourself over summer and enjoy. See you in Philly or in the fall. Ciao! Z8WJBWWW2M7E The blog author, Jeffrey Ream M.S, PPS, writes for The Counseling…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 28, 2013 | ASCA, ASCA 13, jeffrey ream, Meet and Greet, Networking, news, pro-d, professional development, Review, self-care, vacation
…oggers and many Twitter/Facebook friends. I am not going to go into a long review of each breakout session I went to because if you are on Twitter, you got a live tweet of almost all of the breakout sessions throughout the conference on #ASCA13. However, I did want to relay a few thoughts that have stuck with me through my month abroad that I will be bringing back to my high school site in a few weeks. Chef Jeff Henderson was the kick off speaker,…
by Jeff Ream | May 5, 2023 | 21st century skills, counseling, Counseling Tech, Featured, technology, tools
…o is working on this exact thing), but even in it’s current state – it can review an essay or writing piece and suggest some areas for growth or improvement. I grabbed an essay of the web that says it has some errors included that teachers use to teach feedback and plugged it in and the results were okay. While it did not dive into some of the more nuanced feedback elements, it did pick up on most of the places the instructor was spending time giv…
