With the New Year approaching, thoughts of resolutions might be starting to flood your brain. Maybe you plan to try something new at school or cut back on caffeine. Or maybe you want to finally get more organized, manage your time better, and stop procrastinating once and for all. If you’re dedicating yourself to bettering your executive functioning skills this New Year, then now is the perfect time to sit down with one of our coaches and let them be your guide. Read on to see how our coaches help build executive functioning skills and hold you to your resolutions!
The Initial Meeting
In your first session, be prepared to tell your writing coach all about your strengths and challenges with executive function. The first meeting focuses on discussing how things are going so that we can figure out new strategies for success. How are your classes going? How much homework do you typically do a night? How is your organization? Time management? How do you study for tests and when do you start? Your writing coach will ask you all these questions and many more!
By the end of the first meeting, the student and coach will work together to come up with a few strategies to try before the next session. It’s important that these strategies and goals feel realistic and manageable, even if they’re small. We believe that small steps in the right direction are incredibly valuable!
We’ll also make a plan for future sessions. What does the student want these sessions to look like? What do they think will be most useful for them?
Subsequent (Bi-weekly or Monthly) Sessions
Based on the initial executive functioning session, the following sessions might go a few different ways. For many students who struggle with time management, the benefit of a bi-weekly or monthly meeting is creating a study plan for the upcoming weeks. It can be extremely useful to touch base, verbally go over all upcoming assignments, and work together to determine when to get it all done. For students who struggle with notetaking, we might spend a session practicing. If a student finds organization challenging, we might spend the session actually getting organized. The sessions can become whatever will best help the student succeed! We’re here to support you.
Contact us today to book in with a writing coach and get your executive functioning on track for the New Year.
