Instructional Resources

Study skills acquired by a student that enables him/her to create and/or identify an effective activity to learn material specific to a subject or type of content. Good study skills include multi-sensory learning opportunity as well as retrieval practice to verify efficacy of strategy.  Study skills should be specific to and appropriate for content type (vocabulary vs math problems). Study skills are developed like any other skills and require intentional practice and instruction. Study skills are necessary for students to be successful in school but are rarely directly taught.

Having a system to categorize information and materials.

Example: Organization helps students reduce anxiety, save time, better manage their assignments and keep track of upcoming due dates.

ime management refers to one’s ability to manage time limits and adhere to imposed deadlines; considered an essential skill for students as it applies to preparing for assessments and completing assignments on time.  This is often a chief complaint parents have with their students who may procrastinate, have difficulty exiting the house on time or submitting assignments when they are due.  Student may self report they need to ‘improve time management skills’ because they’ve been told that by a parent or teacher.  A qualified executive function coach will help determine what skills are missing,  and help the student build successful follow through steps they can easily follow.

Example: Toby has been using the Effective Student Method to improve his time management as it relates to completing homework assignments, going to bed at a reasonable hour and managing his own screen time.

If you are looking to improve time management skills, try our time management worksheet and exercise, for free!

Sometimes referred to as ‘self-management skills’, executive functions refers to a wide range of cognitive abilities affecting planning and executing, memory, critical thinking, and one’s ability to exercise self-control. These abilities are considered essential to function throughout school, work, and everyday life. Students who struggle with executive function may have difficulties starting or stopping tasks, focusing and following directions.

The Effective Student™ Method helps students identify and eliminate everyday distractions that are especially pervasive in today’s virtual world.   Students learn to improve when they become aware of what is hindering them, learn and apply steps to improve, practice those steps and receive feedback.  Simple organizational strategies simplify finding resources, can reduce stress or how taxed their working memory is for a given set of steps.  We work with each student to find winning strategies, building better study habits that last a lifetime.