Secrets to Executive Function Success, Even with Virtual Instruction!
What is Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning is how our brains handle learning, organizing and prioritizing information. It also involves decision-making and implementation of strategies to complete tasks. Today’s fast-paced delivery of information demands ever-quicker reactions and turnaround time. When students struggle with these executive functioning skills, school and other areas of life can be a real challenge.
How to Recognize an Executive Functioning Issue
Does your student:
- Struggle to focus with online classes or homework?
- Get bogged down or distracted when trying to get started on homework?
- Spend hours on each assignment?
- Feel challenged by how to prioritize?
- Need organizational help?
- Experience anxiety when trying to study for a test?
- Require more motivation to get things done?
- Have ADHD?
If any of these “red flags” sounds familiar, RITES offers the perfect executive function mini-course to help.
How to Manage the Virtual World Better
In our post-pandemic world, we clearly prefer in-person experiences to virtual. That said, there are instances where virtual instruction must and will happen (think “snow days” of the past, a resurgence of Covid or other pandemic, anything else that keeps a student out of school for a period of time, etc.). For students who struggle with focus, attention, and executive function or study skills tasks, virtual instruction can be especially challenging. Yet, many resources and tools for academic success are now dependent upon an online platform.
Students grapple to keep up with all that is available online. Regardless of this, our world has moved to an online structure to provide the majority of the information students encounter and use. What if there was a way to improve how your student handles online instruction, resources, planners, class schedules, and assignments? What if there was a way your student could improve function and study skills? There is.
Student Success Through a Carefully Crafted Online Workshop
Your student CAN focus, even when instruction is given online. Your student CAN use online tools and resources, without going down distracting “rabbit holes.” Your student CAN find success, even if easily distracted. RITES study skills specialist, Gino Tetreault, has designed a dynamic and engaging online class to address these specific challenges. It’s online on purpose!
RITES Teacher Who “Gets It”
Gino is the RITES “Pied Piper” of executive function, study skills and organization. This dynamic, personable teacher to all is particularly skilled at staying on top of the most up-to-date approaches and resources available to our students. He regularly researches the latest strategies, tips and tricks out there, and incorporates only those he knows will resonate with today’s students. Gino understands how to reach each and every student on a personal level, tailoring recommendations and instruction to each student. All along the way, he accomplishes this while leading an interactive, motivating course in a fun, small-group, workshop atmosphere.
Why wait to “see how the school year goes”? Now is the time to sharpen your student’s executive function skill sets with our RITES Study Smarter, Not Harder virtual workshop.