Description
A year-long course to help build new habits and skills that enable students to manage school, work and life better. This secular but inclusive course is offered in Naperville as a full year elective course with in-person class meetings once/week for 1.5 hour and students put their new skills and knowledge to use in their daily lives between class meetings. By the end of the year, we hope to have a strong set of skills in place and practiced.
Executive Function & Study Skills
In-person class Wednesdays, 9:00-10:25 am
Registration is for the full 2024-25 school year
Students should be aged 13 or already working on high school level content for best results in this course. If your child is younger, please contact us to discuss the best fit.
Parents have the option of having MindPrint testing administered at the beginning or end of the school year, but it is not recommended to be done more than once every 3 years. At the beginning of the year, this will be available Aug. 20-30, 2024.
Much of the Executive Function content crosses over into things that affect Study Skills and this content will be integrated to take advantage of this overlap.
Students will learn about and skills related to:
Executive Function Skills:
- Planning
- Time Management
- Organization
- Task Initiation (getting started on tasks without being told and without procrastinating)
- Impulse/Emotional Control
- Flexibility
- Working Memory
- Sustained Attention
- Self-Awareness
Additional Separate Study Skills:
- Active Reading Strategies
- Annotation
- Analyzing and following directions
- Note taking
- Creating study plans
- Test preparation
Students meet in-person once/week to cover 1-3 new topics or skills. They then make a plan for implementing one of the new skills into their upcoming week. Time during the week is spent working on integrating that new skill or knowledge into their daily lives. Upon return to class, we open with reflecting on that process and potential fine-tuning.
Ice-breaker/team-building exercises and growth mindset activities are the heart of the first 2-3 weeks to build a cohesive team of students that can support one another through the year. As such, students should be mature enough to engage positively in a group setting where others may be sharing their struggles. Students that are disruptive, disrespectful or regularly disengaged will be asked to leave without a refund.
Required Course Materials
- 1″ to 1-1/2″ 3-ring binder
- Filler paper
- Black or blue ballpoint pens and pencils
- One set of colored pencils (at least 4 different colors–red, yellow, blue and green)
- 2 different colored highlighters
- Ruler
Additionally, students will need technical ability to access Zoom, Nearpod.com, EdPuzzle, Study.com and Canvas (our learning management system).
At home, students will need access to the internet (home or library) to look up information, related published materials and/or videos and do work through our class learning management system.
Wednesdays, 9:00-10:25am, 29 weeks total
Starting Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2025
No classes:
- Oct. 16, 2024
- Nov. 27, 2024
- Dec. 25, 2024
- Jan. 1, 2025
- Jan. 8, 2025
- Feb. 19, 2025
- Apr. 2, 2025
Last class meeting day is May 14, 2025
Students will often have approximately 30-60 minutes of work to do outside of class. This course is not meant to be a transcriptable course as much as an enrichment course providing necessary skills – available during the day for homeschool students.
Students who cannot find the value in the content and regularly disengage; or students who are disruptive or disrespectful will be removed from the course without a refund. Students in the course should expect to feel safe to share things that are sometimes difficult to acknowledge and we strive to create a safe, accepting and supportive place for that.
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