ACADEMIC COACHING & EXECUTIVE FUNCTION COACHING
Academic Coaching:
- Academic Coaching is an on-going partnership between the student and the coach to improve skills and performance through personalized and regularly scheduled meetings
- The process included identifying what is interfering with learning and productivity, discussion, and identifying and implementing skills and strategies which work for each individual student
Executive Function Coaching:
- Executive Function Coacahing is a specific type of Academic Coaching, which is an integral part of academic coaching
- Students learn their own executive function strengths and needs, learn how to use their strengths, and learn new skills and strategies to help compensate for their weaknesses
- Students learn how to think about their thinking (metacognition) and how to be active learners and self-advocates
Components of Academic Coaching:
- Setting academic, behavioral, and life goals and identifying steps to meet those goals
- Strenthening and practicing of self-advocacy skills
- Taking ownership of academic success
- Building organizational skills using student preferred methos
- Creating strategies for planning ahead and planning backward
- Making more efficient use of time
- Improving homework management
- Organizing and managing long term projects, assignments, essays, and research papers
- Using effective note-taking techniques
- Learning and applying efficient study strategies
- Organizing ideas for various types of writing and improve written expression
- Learning and implementing compensatory strategies for any executive function weakness
- Increasing reading comprehension through active reading strategies
- Improving handwriting skills
- Learning and implementing appropriate coping strategies
- Monitoring and modifying behavior
