Marietta Community School

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Students: Enrich Your Executive Functioning Skills

Executive Function skills are a key indicator of long term student success. To help students develop the skills to manage academic demands and reduce stress, Effective Students is excited to announce our longest running and most popular, Effective Student Workshop™. This camp  provides essential instruction for students to improve skills like time management, organization and learning how to study.

Executive functions are skills that develop from early adolescence through young adulthood that involve self regulation, perspective taking, planning & prioritizing and task completion. Studies show that executive functioning skills are the leading indicators of long term success.

Topics include:

• Perspective-taking -seeing things from another person’s point of view
• Growth mindset and building resilience
• Self control & emotional regulation
• Impulse control & squirrels
• Self evaluation of strengths, struggles and how students are unique
• Basic components of becoming an Effective Student™
• Building a successful at home school work environment.
• Measuring quality work
• Tips and tricks for getting work done efficiently.
• Reinforcement activities and skill building