EXECUTIVE FUNCTION COACHING TO HELP STUDENTS THRIVE
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When it comes to learning, one of the biggest challenges that you might encounter is finding your child procrastinating. As parents, we’ve all been there at some point — your child suddenly springs a huge announcement about a project the night before it is due. While your mind might be racing trying to figure out how you’ll find a poster board and glitter at 10 o’clock at night, this is actually an opportunity to explore why your child put off the assignment.
Procrastination is a sign of a bigger problem with your child’s executive function skills. They might procrastinate because they lack the ability to manage their time wisely. Or, they may be so stressed out by an element of the assignment that they fear getting started. Executive function coaching is designed to identify your child’s weaknesses and turn them into strengths.
Have You Ever Found Yourself Saying These Things to Your Child?
- You are too smart to be falling so far behind!
- I feel like you’re not even trying.
- Your room looks like a tornado hit it.
- You need to take a shower, brush your teeth….(when your child is old enough to know)
- Could you pay attention to me when I’m talking?
Positive parenting begins by realizing that these statements all represent that your child has needs that aren’t being met. Giving your child resources that teach self management skills for students can restore harmony in your relationship and help them do better in school.
What Skills are Used for Executive Functioning?
Here’s a way to picture what your child is experiencing: Imagine their brain looks a lot like the inside of their backpack — only, instead of papers, they have thoughts flying all around. They might be rapidly moving from thinking about a research project to suddenly remembering what a friend said at school. With all those thoughts mingling together, things can get messy and less efficient.
Every day, both kids and adults rely upon executive functioning skills to make order out of the chaos that happens in their mind. Examples of executive function skills include:
- Task initiation and completion
- Planning & Prioritizing
- Organization
- Time management
- Self-Care
- Emotional Regulation
- Shifting from one activity to another
- Working Memory
- Perspective Taking
- Self Monitoring
Effective Students teaches students, parents, and educators how to better recognize executive functions — then helps you improve them, in painless lessons distilled into as few as 15 minutes per week.
I AM A STUDENT
With Effective Students, you’ll learn an easy, step-by-step process to take charge of your education.
I AM A PARENT
Your child can master essential academic skills in as little as 15 minutes per week.
I AM AN EDUCATOR
Created by experienced educators, each unit includes mini-lessons, assessments, grading rubrics, and teaching resources.
Is Coaching is Right for Your Student?
Executive Function Coaching & Academic Management Online Course
Have you ever wondered why your child failed a test when they knew the material well? Or, are you tired of reminding your child about the need to complete their homework assignments? While it might be easy to just blame your child for not listening or even question the teacher’s methods, the truth is that many students’ academic struggles can be attributed to their executive functioning skills.
Rachael Barron—parent, seasoned academic coach, and former educational advocate—created the Effective Student Method, providing students and parents a proven resource to master executive function skills.
How does coaching work?
Through a series of fun, engaging, lessons, any student can learn how to work smarter and direct their own future academic pursuits. We’ve made it easy to improve study skills, homework organization and planning skills, for kids to become a better student.
Executive function coaching equips students with skills that help them to plan and organize their academic tasks. Learning how to become a better student is possible by using evidence-based methods that combine online lessons with one-on-one coaching for a truly personalized program.
The Effective Students® program combines Expert Coaching with lessons and structured practice, onsite for place-based learners as well as virtually to students and adults around the country.
Tell us a little about what you’re looking for so we can determine if we are the best fit for your student.
Partner With A Highly Qualified Coach to Help Your Child Succeed
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes a team of invested adults to help children overcome learning challenges and educational gaps. An executive function coach works with you and your child to help them build these skills so they grow into a position to self-manage.
Choosing who works with your child is critical – there is no substitute for experience. Who are the coaches at Effective Students?
- More than half of the Effective Students’ Coaches have over 20 years of experience working with students
- Average experience of coaches at Effective Students working with students is over 16 years
- More than 73% of ES coaches already have or are pursuing secondary degrees or doctorates
Our Effective Student Method combines lessons with the opportunity to connect with an experienced coach who is skilled in helping children with a wide range of needs and abilities succeed academically. As your child starts our program, they’ll work through personalized lessons that help students master skills, building independence which helps increase your child’s confidence and competence.
During live coaching sessions, you and your child can talk about any struggles that they are encountering at school and practice applying new strategies to address. Later, when your child has completed the lessons, they can still arrange for maintenance sessions to help keep them on a continuous path for progress and build proficiency.
Executive functioning skills aren’t just helpful for getting your child through school. Your child will one day grow up and continue to use these skills for the rest of their life. Learning how to initiate tasks and carry them through to completion is an ability that can be applied to everything from writing a report to managing a company. Teaching your child these skills now helps them to hit their goals and reach their fullest potential.
Resources Educators Can Use Right Away
Teachers have enough pressure teaching academic content. With the right instructional tools teaching executive function skills can be simple and efficient whether you teach content, study strategies or support students as a counselor. Check out our simple lesson plans, slide decks and videos for instruction, student workbooks and planners and parent handouts – all with common vocabulary to align parents, students and educators.
Resources For Educators To Build Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
Each course in our program is designed to address common problems associated with executive functioning. If you’re an educator, you may be tasked with helping students build executive function skills. Using a structured curriculum with embedded training for you and routines for your students makes teaching easier and follow through on behalf of your students much more likely.
With the Effective Students Method, exercises are incrementally based so students build foundational skills to self-lead and take initiative. Whether your an administrator loking to create standards in your school community, a study strategies teacher or counselor or even an auxiliary program leader, the Effective Students content offers you the flexibility and simple structure for your learning communities to flourish.
Trying to engage parents in the process? Both the Effective Student Curriculum and Grit & Growth Mindset Curriculum have specific content for parents with suggested accompanying literature, questions and topics they can discuss with their students right away. We see students who use fewer strategies and more deliberate practice thrive.
Using the Effective Student Curricula, educators will have measurable tools they need to easily assess progress on goals and objectives and the use self evaluation forms to build self awareness and metacognition skills in their students.