Services
Organizational/Study Skills Coaching Services
Direct services will assess and teach your child skills in the following four areas:
- Organization at School - A place for notes and handouts, a system for transporting material between home and school, storage for materials not being used (binder/file, backpack and locker).
- Organization at Home - A place to do homework, a location for tools to complete work, and storage for work in progress or completed.
- Time Management - Strategies to learn how to plan, prioritize, and manage time for homework completion and long term assignments.
- Study Skills for Test Taking - Strategies for matching the type of information to learn to a certain study format and alternatives to practice information to aid in retention.
The focus of coaching will be to allow your child to locate what he/she needs quickly, so that more time can be spent on learning new academic information. Organizational systems are set up to meet individual children’s needs and help to improve school success, so each organizational system may look different for each child.
Essential organizational/study skills coaching services begin with an one-hour meeting in your home or in the office. The meetings are scheduled at two-week intervals, with an e-mail communication between week one and week two. Both you, the parent, and your child must attend all sessions so that a consistent message is communicated and skills can be continued between sessions. Other children (siblings and/or friends) can not be present during the consultation session due to distractibility.
The first session will focus on determining the organizational and study skills that your child currently has and what he/she needs to learn. The current notebook, folder or file system that your child uses needs to be available for review. A current report card and/or teacher’s comments is also helpful to determine areas of strengths and weaknesses. Finally, your child will create a “skills contract” to address one goal for developing organizational skills during the following sessions.
After the first session and based upon the assessment of your child’s skills, you can consider the need for additional coaching services to address the skills that your child needs to learn. The number of sessions will be a mutual agreement between the parent and coach.
Linda Price can be reached at 603-943-2124 or .