The matter of going to work l The experience of joining the company for five months

It has been five months since I joined the company, the school is about to start, and the work will enter the next stage, so I want to record my work experience in the past few months.

Facing disabled students is challenging and fun

I am a school counselor working primarily with students with disabilities. So far, most jobs have been easy to get started with, but there are challenges. For example: I have encountered many students who are actually relatively weak in cognitive function or expressive ability. Although I have received training in interviewing skills and coaching strategies in the past, I used to practice with "normal students", or the cases I faced during the internship in the past were all relatively good in cognitive function and expression ability. , so the professional knowledge learned in the past is relatively comfortable. However, students with disabilities are an ethnic group that I have hardly come into contact with in the past. Their individual differences are very large, and the particularity of each disability is also different. I am not very familiar with the characteristics of some disabilities, and sometimes it really takes a little time. Only by spending time with the students, can you slowly find a direction where you can work with him.

Although some students are quite a headache, sometimes there are some very crazy behaviors. For example: One of the students enjoyed that I treated him as a cat, held him with something like a cat-teasing stick, and then he turned into a cat, imitating a cat, jumping and grabbing the cat-teasing stick. Or there was an outing activity before, and everyone on the tour bus was singing KTV. A student suddenly burst into tears when he heard another student sing a love song from a very long time in a voice without scales, because the song reminded him of a certain ex, but he burst into tears. He was still in the state of HIGH song for a second. Although it is very unconscionable, I think it is quite funny, because the degree of dysphonia of the students who are singing has already amazed me, and even if I think about the past, I can't cry at all. And the emotional change of the student who burst into tears was too great! Watching their madness is sometimes quite healing.

The job is also quite exciting. Personally, I prefer to go the route of being abused. In the past, when I was an intern, I often held the expectation that the number of cases would increase sharply and encounter high-risk cases. Although due to the epidemic, I have relatively few opportunities to contact students, but some students can continue to "explode" in just a few months, or have frequent accidents. Although sometimes when you are busy, you will feel like "You have a lot to do!", but once you get to a stage, you will feel "cool! You have dealt with a difficult task!"

Recently, the unit has started to revise the system, and in recent years, the number of special students has been increasing, which makes me start the semester, and the number of cases in my hands will increase sharply in an instant! To be honest, I am quite excited, and I feel that the challenge is finally here! After all, due to the epidemic last semester, almost none of the students came to school. Before I could meet some students, I announced that they would work from home and take classes, and some even graduated silently. There were not many opportunities to work with students in the last semester, so I also look forward to having the opportunity to show my skills this semester. But I really hope I don't blow up.

The boss is the hardest role to play

I think students' matters are easy to deal with, but the most difficult thing to deal with is the unexpected and incomprehensible demands of the officers. The team leader of the unit is quite good, but because we have the provost, the principal, the board of directors and other officials above the team leader, they will also "concern" the operation of the team from time to time.

I haven't dealt with these officers head-on yet, and it's not my turn to deal with them as a rookie. Senior colleagues often negotiate with these officers, and then relay their thoughts. And the thoughts of some of the chiefs are really jaw-dropping.

For example: events that are too expensive cannot be held. However, the activities we hold are planned based on the needs of students or because they are helpful to students. Moreover, the fees are not paid by the school, but are approved by the Ministry of Education. We must spend the money within the time limit. The chief expects us not to hold expensive events, but expects us to run out of money, and ends up coming up with bad ideas like holding several barbecues each semester. Or I often hear their remarks that are not surprising, such as: "Students don't need to be too good!" A person in the education industry can say such a thing, I am also drunk.

I had the opportunity to have a meeting with these officers a while ago. The meeting seemed to be calm, and they "agreed" to our follow-up activities or many plans during the meeting. But after the meeting, the team leader told us that the conclusions of the meeting were only "provisional", because after the meeting, the officers began to have many opinions on our activities, but these opinions were not expressed at the meeting. This kind of situation of "not talking at the meeting, talking nonsense after the meeting" is a waste of time and resources!

Compared with the special students, the officers are the most difficult characters to deal with! Perhaps they have many considerations or hidden meanings that we, as subordinates, cannot understand or imagine. But as a counselor, a person working in an educational unit, the most basic principle for me is to put the needs of the students first. As long as it is within the ability and reasonable, I think it should be provided to students as much as possible!

Maybe I am just a rookie who has just stepped into the society. I am still full of justice and ambition for the society, and I am angry at the unreasonable demands of many officials. Perhaps many of what I think are unreasonable now are the norm in society. From a more negative point of view, perhaps these unreasonable existences allow the school to continue to operate, or that my work can continue to be maintained under the interlocking links. A rookie like me really can't do much, so I can only remind myself to always reflect on what I've done, and don't become the adult that I once hated. Of course, I am also very fortunate that my colleagues are very considerate of students, so they will try to resist these unreasonable things.

In any case, I hope the next day will be smooth!

Written on 2021.9.13