Skills Guide Content
Goal: Review skills learned and put into practice, as well as identify skills that need re-enforcement
Take this moment to congratulate your student on making it this far. This is the point in the school year where it starts to drag along, reducing motivation and effectiveness.
Help them turn that around with encouragement! In addition to all that learning they do at school, look at everything else that student has been tackling in their home, personal, social, and extracurricular life. On top of that, they have been working on new executive functioning skills. Review which skills are easy, which ones are harder, and which ones make no sense at all. Figure out what steps the student might have missed and ways to support them as they work on it.
Activity from Planner
Identify a day or week that felt particularly good and consider what you did that week that made a difference. How can you have more days or weeks like that? Write your answer below.
Star the skills you’d like to review:
- Macro vs micro project planning
- Reading for recall
- Short term memory tricks
- Take care of your body: eat, sleep, hydrate
- Starting a new routine
- Self-care as self-awareness
Extended Activity
How is it going? Take a few minutes to think about what has gone right since starting this planner and the skills introduced.
Identify a day or week that felt particularly good and consider what you did that week that made a difference. How can you have more days or weeks like that?
Below is a list of skills we’ve covered so far; add a star next to the skills you are doing well with. Bookmark any skills you want to review.
- Focusing on a positive outcome
- Making helpful lists
- Being accountable
- Note-taking tips
- Chunking information
- Re-charging vs checking-out
- Be Still
- Macro vs micro project planning
- Reading for recall
- Short term memory tricks
- Take care of your body: eat, sleep, hydrate
- Starting a new routine
- Self-care as self-awareness
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