One of my most rewarding experiences has been volunteering on the psychology team at Darden Head Start in Opelika, Alabama. Each week, I spent about 8 hours there performing various tasks. One was learning and administering the Speed DIAL-4 assessment. This has given me firsthand experience with management of children and assessment techniques. Along with fellow team members, I taught social skills lessons such as Stop & Think, Listening, and Sharing. These lessons have taught me how to manage a room full of children, hold their attention, and work with teachers and peers. I also spent time in the classrooms being a buddy for children with difficult behaviors and modeling correct behavior. In this role, I was able to learn appropriate ways to correct children as well as how to be purposeful in praising good behavior. To learn more, you can read the paper I wrote about my experience, linked to the left.