齊心協力 - 青少年執行功能 CAMP

This class is directed towards students in middle school who are changing classrooms for their subjects.  This course is also taught in a live, once/week format.  Please see the Parental Guidance/Considerations section for more info.

This course will help students better identify their areas of strength and weakness--and focuses on using strengths to accommodate weaknesses.  We will cover each of 10 executive function areas throughout the course--explaining each one with real-life examples, going through a personal skills inventory to help students understand where they may need to put in more supports, giving students support options and tips/tricks, and then assigning homework that helps them integrate the supports they need most.

Executive function areas covered include:

* Planning/prioritizing (with understanding of "important" vs. "urgent")
* Organization
* Time Management
* Task initiation
* Working memory
* Self-monitoring (metacognition)
* Impulse and Emotional control ("self-control") 
* Sustained attention
* Flexibility
* Perseverance


Homework will require parent involvement and input to help students find new ways to accommodate their weaknesses by using their strengths in the context of their own world and your household's lifestyle, constraints and preferences.  This homework is a way to help them build self-advocacy skills.