Professional Challenges: Practicum

Explain the major professional challenges you faced in the completion of your practicum.
Summarize and conclude whether your perspective has or has not changed from the beginning of your practicum experience. Explain how your academic program (and specific courses) prepared you for this experience.
Describe areas in which you felt unprepared and what you did to improve your knowledge and competency.
Include positive and negative aspects of the practicum experience and what you have learned in terms of areas for future skill and professional growth.
Discuss how the overall impact of the internship experience has influenced your thinking about the next steps in your career.