By Preeya Chibbra As a first-year trainee educational psychologist, I take a lot of inspiration from the professional community. One example of this is using one-page profiles as a way of introducing ourselves to children and young people before we begin working with them. I was interested in how these may be used in a … Continue reading “Back at you: feeding back to children and young people”
Category: Educational psychology training
Listening to the Child’s Voice: Reflections from the DECP TEP Conference 2021
By Ellie Turner, Kate Jobson and Julie Smith-Lewis This year Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) conference for trainee educational psychologists was online for the first time. So when we logged in at 9:15am sharp, there was no conference room to find and no babble of excited trainee educational psychologists glancing at pieces of … Continue reading “Listening to the Child’s Voice: Reflections from the DECP TEP Conference 2021”
Decolonising the Educational Psychology Curriculum
By Paige Garbett, Zoë Morrice and Julia Howe Background to the Project This academic year one of the priorities for the educational psychology team at the University of Birmingham has been to complete a review of our curriculum using ideas from the decolonising movement. The idea of decolonising the curriculum has its roots in the … Continue reading “Decolonising the Educational Psychology Curriculum”
Life of a Year 1 Trainee Educational Psychologist – Lockdown Edition
By Ella Mansfield In January, I wrote a blog post about what an average week is like for a year 1 trainee educational psychologist at the University of Birmingham. At that point, I had no idea that in a matter of months I would be continuing the course from my parents’ home, writing essays from … Continue reading “Life of a Year 1 Trainee Educational Psychologist – Lockdown Edition”
Reflections on my first year of training as an educational psychologist
By Dawn Dance Finding our more about the role In my previous working life I had never met an educational psychologist despite working for nearly ten years in a Post 16 and secondary school setting. As part of my application I had the chance to talk to some educational psychologists and to read about the … Continue reading “Reflections on my first year of training as an educational psychologist”