February 27, 2010
Raising CEO's: Competent Everyday Organizers
A Full Day Seminar on Executive Function Skillls
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This is a practical strategies seminar. To see immediate
improvement in the Executive Function skills, Sarah Ward will provide
participants with everyday strategies to help students of all ages to
have improved awareness and to effectively access and use
forethought and hindsight. Participants will learn how to teach
students to sense the passage of time and change or maintain their
pace to carry out routines. Strategies will be provided to improve
initiation, management of tasks and homework and independent
organization and management of space and personal materials.
Course Agenda:
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8:30-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:50 What are the Executive Function Skills?
A brief overview and functional definition for the purpose of understanding the basis of the tools
used to improve self management skills.
10:00-12:00 Thinking, Planning and Self Regulating
Practical strategies for teaching students forethought, awareness and goal development skills.
Everyday tools to help children to be flexible, to see the 'gray' in situations, to develop a range of
solutions to problems, and adapt to 'unexpected' change.
12:00-1:00 Lunch -Provided
1:00-2:00 Start and Stop: Beyond the Clock
Teaching children how to sense the passage of time, to accurately estimate how long tasks will
take, change and maintain their pace, plan homework, manage long-term assignments, plan
ahead and carry out routines. Concrete strategies to help your child self initiate on tasks and also
stop performing a task when they need to move on to the next task of higher priority.
2:00-3:00 Material Management
Functional strategies to help students think in an organized way and then self initiate and manage
their clothes, backpack, papers and personal belongings. Techniques to help students maintain
personal and shared living and work spaces.
3:00 - 3:30 Question and Answer Session
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CEUs are now available in cooperation with Communicative Health Care Associates
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Time: 9-3:30am
Registration Sign-In: 8:30
Cost: $223.00 Includes course book, materials, light breakfast and lunch
Pre-Registration Required
Place: Crowne Plaza Boston North Shore
50 Ferncroft Road
Danvers, Massachusetts 01923
Phone: (978)-777-2500
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