Forest Hills School District Parent Academy

Teach children to manage their time, space, and materials while keeping emotions in check. Powerful strategies to help children develop independent executive function skills. In this virtual session, you will: develop a solid understanding of what executive function skills are and how they impact a student’s academic and personal performance; learn how to promote the development of executive function skills by weaving them naturally into everyday activities; learn dozens of easy-to-implement strategies to help children initiate tasks, follow routines, transition between tasks, think in an organized way, and encourage self-initiative to manage homework and tasks; identify easy strategies to help students understand time demands and internally feel the sweep of time to focus and complete tasks in allotted time frames; and show students the process of how to plan and complete homework, tasks, and chores with less supervision and fewer prompts.