Is your child "organizationally challenged?"
Does your child underachieve because of a messy binder, missing assignments, lost worksheets or failure to follow directions?
Are poor work management and organizational skills masking your student's true academic abilities?
The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! is a dynamic 176 page workbook using comics, characters, text and exercises to teach students in grades 6-8 practical skills and strategies for good work management and organization. Just some of the skills your student will learn are how to:
- organize a "Goof Proof Binder"
- survive a case of "PPD" (Personal Planner Disorder)
- design a workspace that rocks!
- work with a study bud
- uza cmptr 4 mor thn im's
- take the "grrr" out of a group project
- use the "write stuff" to give written work an extreme makeover
- impress teachers as "responsible" students (self-advocacy skills)
- detect and correct unproductive homework habits
- manage a long term project
- use awesome mental powers to remember their responsibilities
- set goals for success
- identify and control goal-busters
- create a personal Homework Tracking Chart
- take "to do" notes
- sweat the small stuff (understanding grade averaging)
COMING IN SUMMER 2008! S.O.S. (Student Organizational Skills) is coming to PODCAST! Soon your student will be able to log on and learn! In 10 fun podcast lessons that interact with The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! your student can follow along with the students of U.B. Smart Middle School as they learn good, basic organizational skills for success in middle school.
S.O.S. PARENT WORKSHOP
Would your Orange, Riverside or San Diego County school or PTA/PTO like to sponsor an S.O.S. PARENT WORKSHOP? In this dynamic 2.5 hour workshop, parents of middle (or soon-to-be middle) school students learn practical techniques and strategies to help their students handle the organizational challenges of middle school. Parents learn how to work with their student to organize a Goof-Proof Binder, use a planner, successfully manage a group and long term project, self-advocate in middle school, use a rubric, understand grade averaging, remember their daily responsibilities and much, much more!
Workshop Time: 2.5 hours
Location: Your school or community center
Fee: $55.00 per attendee - min. 8
Materials Included: The Middle School Student's Guide to Ruling the World! ($10.95 value)
For more information or to schedule a Parent Workshop for Fall 2008, call 949-723-5131 or email info@middleschoolguide.com.