Student Coaching
Imagine feeling prepared and completely organized and stress free by having key organizational systems, critical time management skills, self-advocacy capabilities, a daily to do list and effective coping strategies for managing stress and anxiety. It’s absolutely possible with the support of a great executive function coach!
Prepared, confident, and ready to excel – where learning meets opportunity!
Essential Executive Functions Skills
Organization, time management, task initiation, task switching, and impulse control are essential executive function skills that significantly impact student success and transform academic challenges that seem overwhelming into manageable tasks, allowing students to focus on learning rather than scrambling to meet deadlines.
When students learn new systems to track assignments, manage their time, and organize materials they experience reduced stress and anxiety while achieving higher grades and better comprehension. Building strong organizational habits will serve students well into adulthood setting foundational success for college, careers, and lifelong success.
Productivity Work Flow: Assignment Tracking, Schedule Management, Organization, Time Blocking, and Self-Advocacy
1. Assignment Tracker – Google Sheets
2. Management of important dates – Calendars / Digital and Analog
3. Class Organization – Digital (iPad or tablet) / Physical (binder)
4. Time Blocking
5. School portals and email address links for teachers/professors
6. Grade audits
7. Eight questions every student must ask themselves
8. Systems Maintenance
Knowing where everything is and what’s needed to be done, having a plan to start the work and turn it in on time will help to reduce stress and anxiety while building organizational habits that transfers to college and adulthood.
Self-Advocacy
Self-advocacy helps students receive appropriate academic support, form stronger relationships with teachers and professors, and prepare for the independence required in college and future careers. Students learn to navigate obstacles and seek solutions by speaking up for themselves, while building confidence and developing crucial life skills along the way.
Emotion Regulation
Mindfulness
Identify problem areas and develop effective coping strategies for managing stress, emotions, anxiety, self-defeating thoughts and behaviors. Building healthy routines for sleep, nutrition, and exercise
Point of Performance
Focusing on the Point of Performance, the area where the student is failing to act in a specific moment is critical to avoid crisis. Awareness of time management, organization, and planning tips are often not enough. Utilizing key coaching strategies will turn intention into action.