THE ORGANIZED STUDENT

Presented byThe Shorecrest Learning Center

INTRODUCTIONS AND WARM UPWelcome Goal: Organizing your child in this digital

ageWarm Up – Balloon activity: Keeping It All

Going

The myth of multi-tasking Time Management for students and

families Executive functioning issues Scaffolding and modeling the parents’

role

TIME MANAGEMENT

PRIORITIZING

Rocks and Pebbles What is the connection? How to help your child learn to

prioritize?

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION

ARE YOU A PILER OR A FILER

LOCKERS AND BOOK BAGS How to save your child from the Black

holes of school organization

WHAT DOES YOUR CHILD’S LOCKER LOOK LIKE?

This or that?

MATERIAL MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION AT HOME

Managing Time at Home Home Desk Tools Tips for organizing to keep home and

school connected and running smoothly

WHAT ABOUT SOME 21ST CENTURY ORGANIZATION TIPS

How are parents suppose to help organize when there are no papers or books any more?

There is an app for that: Remember the milk Lazy meter Index card app Due iCal

Need more? See our wiki: http://organizationforshorecrest.wikispaces.com/

DIGITAL EQUIVALENTS TO ORGANIZATION

Agenda= Reminders Notes= Notability/Pages Going through the backpack = Going through

the iPad Academic updates = Haiku Saving important tests or notes = Google

Drive Get your work done or no TV = Parental

controls and guided access Digital Organizing Tips from teachers

PARENTAL CONTROL

CLOSING REMARKS AND QUESTIONS Quote from the great organizer

Christopher Robin of Winnie the Pooh fame

"organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."-Christopher Robin in Winnie the pooh (Milne, 1926)

THANK YOU FOR COMING