{"id":1,"date":"2016-03-26T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2016-03-26T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T21:57:03","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Improve your student’s planning skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written for us by our coach Megan Moody<\/em><\/p>\n

Planning is an Executive Functioning skill required to think about and organize the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Most students diagnosed with ADHD struggle with planning homework, projects, studying for tests and other activities.<\/p>\n

With any HomeworkCoach student, I like to begin each session by looking at the student\u2019s upcoming assignments for the week. I always ask students or parents for access to the student\u2019s blogs or web sites where assignments are kept. Before each session, I take a few moments and check sites so I know what\u2019s going on for the week. When we start the session, I review what I found online with the student. <\/p>\n

I ask if the student has done the required homework for the day\/week. I then ask to see their agenda, or wherever they document their assignments. If I see a major test or project coming up, I start asking a lot of questions: \u201cWhat are you doing to study? Have you made flashcards? How did you do on your last quiz?\u201d<\/p>\n

I guess I\u2019m a like a bee in the student\u2019s bonnet. I keep asking the same questions and start sessions in the same manner until these elements of planning become part of our expected routine. Now, I get excited to hear the student tell me, \u201cI have a science test this week and a Spanish project due on Friday.\u201d It shows me that the student is starting to practice these planning skills without me.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written for us by our coach Megan Moody Planning is an Executive Functioning skill required to think about and organize the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Most students diagnosed with ADHD struggle with planning homework, projects, studying for tests and other activities. With any HomeworkCoach student, I like to begin each session by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-functioning-skills","category-planning-and-problem-solving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coaches.homeworkcoach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}