Strategies for Success

Organization

Messy backpacks, unorganized binders and chaotic study spaces make it nearly impossible for students to keep track of assignments. Important papers are often lost or damaged. SOS helps students identify systems and materials/products that work best for them and helps students implement and maintain these systems over time.

Time Management

Today’s students are overscheduled and overwhelmed with demands. After school sports schedules, play and concert rehearsals, scouts, youth groups, jobs and family time all encroach on a student’s time. Six 50-minute classes per day may easily translate into 2-3 hours of homework each night. Students find themselves procrastinating, cramming, staying up late and getting up at the crack of dawn to hastily complete papers and assignments. Many students either don’t have planners (something adults take for granted!) or don’t use them effectively.

Academic coaching helps students plan and utilize their time effectively and efficiently. Coaches teach students how to set goals, prioritize and multi-task. In particular. students learn the all-important skill of planning and preparing to execute large projects.

Life suddenly becomes more manageable!

Students feel relaxed and effective!!

Test Preparation

Coaches teach invaluable strategies designed to minimize the stress in test preparation and maximize success.

Students learn to:

• Tap into their strengths and learning style to prepare for exams
• Utilize a variety of tools and techniques for test taking in all types of classes
• Plan and manage time for test review
• Prepare for final exams

Essay Writing

SOS coaches give students the “tools of the trade” essential to efficient and effective writing.

• Understand teacher expectations
• Learn foolproof processes for creating and completing expository essays
• Increase flexibility of thinking, improve planning, organization and insure effortless execution and editing of the final product

Procrastinate no more!

Memory Improvement

Coaching taps into your learning style and hones visual and auditory memory skills through the use of an imaginative array of proven techniques and devices.

Reading  Comprehension

Strong reading skills are critical to academic success; many students struggle with the heightened demands of middle school and high school reading, Tackling increasingly difficult material, whether in novels or textbooks can prove daunting to many students. Organization and planning are key.

SOS Coaching builds more confident readers by teaching students the skills to manage text and literature through notetaking and graphic organizing. Coaches also expose the student to different note taking approaches that tap into a variety of learning styles..

Creating Study Space

Functional study space can greatly enhance a student’s motivation to complete homework and create an environment optimal for academic success.

SOS can help students design and implement plans for an effective, efficient home study space. Assistance may include organization of files and papers, space arrangement, help selecting appropriate furniture, supplies and lighting.

Stress Management

SOS Coaching helps students reduce their stress level by increasing organization and time management. Students stop feeling overwhelmed and instead experience a newfound sense of effectiveness and efficiency.

As students master advance planning and preparation, energy levels increase and students find they have more time to pursue hobbies and outside activities.

Learning to create a life in balance is one of the most invaluable skills instilled in teens by SOS coaches!

> The Extended Team