Executive Function Tutoring
Unlock Your Child’s Potential with an Executive Function Tutor
Since 2010, we have provided customized one-on-one executive function tutoring. Our goal is to equip students with essential skills, tools, and strategies needed for success in school and life. Our executive functioning tutoring focuses on teaching systems and reinforcing habits that can be applied across all academic subjects, through middle school, high school, and into college and career.
What is Executive Function?
Executive function is the brain’s command center, managing the mental skills needed to navigate daily life. It includes planning, organizing, focusing, time management, and emotional regulation. These skills work together to help achieve goals, whether it’s doing well on a test, finishing a project on time, or staying calm during a challenging conversation.
Are We Born With Executive Functioning Skills?
Children aren’t born with executive functioning skills. While the potential to develop these abilities is innate, they take practice. If your child is struggling, numerous studies demonstrate the ability of targeted interventions and executive function coaching can significantly improve outcomes.
Key Executive Functioning Abilities
Crucial executive functioning skills include:
- Planning ahead
- Keeping track of materials, tasks, deadlines
- Managing time
- Effectively processing information
- Maintaining focus
- Organizing thoughts
- Adapting knowledge for particular situations
- Screening for errors
- Managing frustration
- Why Executive Function Tutoring is Essential
Executive function skills are important throughout life. In school, executive function skills help children remember and follow multi-step instructions, avoid distractions, control impulsive responses, adjust when rules change, persist at problem-solving, and manage long-term assignments.
When a child knows how to use and apply executive functions to their work they can expect:
- Improved Academic Performance – Executive function tutoring provides personalized strategies to enhance time management, organization, and study skills. These improvements lead to better grades and a more positive school experience.
- Boosted Confidence – Struggling with executive function challenges can be frustrating. Tutoring helps build confidence as students learn to manage their tasks effectively and achieve their goals.
- Enhanced Life Skills – Beyond academics, executive function skills are essential for life. These skills help students in daily activities, from organizing their rooms to managing their schedules.
How To Know If Your Child Struggles With Executive Functions
Being challenged with executive function can manifest in many ways, often similar to symptoms of ADHD. This similarity is because ADHD is a condition related to executive function challenges.
Your child may:
- Struggle with initiating or finishing tasks.
- Experience challenges in determining the importance and order of tasks.
- Often forget recently heard or read information.
- Face difficulties in adhering to instructions or following a series of steps.
- Be chronically disorganized.
- Experience stress, anxiety, and overwhelm when confronted with alterations in rules or routines.
- Find it challenging to shift attention between different tasks.
- Tend to become excessively emotional and fixate on specific issues.
- Encounter difficulties in organizing thoughts coherently.
- Frequently misplace or lose track of personal items.
- Struggle with effective time management skills.
If your student exhibits even a few of these behaviors, school can be very challenging for them. Recognizing the signs is the first step to hiring an executive functioning coach to support your child.
What is Executive Function Tutoring?
Executive function coaching can be a game-changer for your child, providing them with the tools and strategies needed to navigate these challenges and unlock their potential. Executive Function coaching teaches students how to successfully navigate the challenges of school. Our EF tutors identify strengths and weaknesses and teach skills that help their students organize, plan, prioritize, manage time, maintain focus, self-assess, and study/work efficiently.
How Executive Function Tutoring Works
Our executive function tutoring begins with assessing each child’s unique challenges and strengths to build a customized plan. This tailored approach ensures that the strategies we implement are effective and relevant.
Targeted Skill Development
We focus on developing key executive function skills, such as planning, prioritizing, and problem-solving. Our tutors use engaging activities to make learning enjoyable and impactful.
Regular Feedback and Adjustments
Continuous monitoring and feedback are crucial. We regularly assess progress and adjust our strategies to ensure the best outcomes for each student.
Addressing Common Executive Function Challenges
Executive function challenges can affect people in many ways, including difficulty with:
Planning and organizing
Many students with executive function deficits have trouble starting, organizing, planning, or completing tasks. They also have difficulty stringing together actions or tasks to meet long-term goals. As a result, our teachers are very intentional in equipping students with systems and tools, such as time management planners, so that they can manage their responsibilities and work towards their goals systematically.
Focus and Attention
Students may have trouble listening, paying attention, or sustaining a task over a period of time. They may be easily distracted, daydream, or focus too much on one thing. Our executive function help teach students practical techniques aimed at helping them maintain focus and sustain attention.
Time Management
Many students struggle to manage their time effectively. Our tutoring provides practical tools and techniques to help them plan their days and meet deadlines. By teaching students how to prioritize tasks and allocate time appropriately, we ensure they can handle academic pressures.
Organization
Keeping track of assignments and materials can be overwhelming. They may also have difficulty stringing together actions to meet long-term goals. We teach students organizational skills that simplify their academic lives.
Attention and Focus
Maintaining attention in class and during homework can be difficult for students who lack executive functions. Our strategies help improve focus, making learning more effective and less stressful. By teaching how to use techniques and personalized attention strategies, we enhance students’ ability to concentrate, making learning more effective and less stressful
Academic Coaching in Executive Functions
Traditional academic tutoring often focuses on mastering specific subjects, leaving crucial skills like organization, time management, and emotional regulation to chance. This is why it is so important to teach both academic and executive function steps together. No two students experience executive function challenges in the same way.
We tailor our approach to your child’s unique learning style. We also weave their academic work into our teaching so that your child clearly understands how to:
- Organize
- Plan
- Prioritize
- Manage time
- Maintain focus
- Self-assess
- Study/work efficiently
- Manage emotions, stress, and anxiety
- Reflect on and change their approaches
Executive Functioning Coaching and the ADHD Child
Many children with executive function challenges also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As executive function coaching provides practical strategies and support to overcome specific challenges, we can address the strengths and weaknesses of the ADHD learner.
This targeted approach equips students with ADHD with the skills to break down complex tasks, manage time effectively, focus during study sessions, and regulate emotions when facing academic pressure.
Our role as an executive functioning coach is to increase your child’s confidence, enhance their learning, and inspire a love and curiosity for learning, both in and out of school.
A Foundation For Success
Research shows executive functioning provides the foundation for success across academic, occupational, and social-emotional realms. Therefore, by encouraging the development of executive functioning skills and strategies, we can foster transformative changes within our students.
Our executive teachers will always include ways to improve study skills and self-management skills, as well as strategies to compensate for working memory challenges that are often associated with ADHD, anxiety, and other disabling conditions that impact executive functions.
Consequently, our tutors integrate a student’s actual work with the skills taught so that your student will experience exactly how the skills apply to them and their learning style.
Contact Us for Executive Function Help
If your child struggles with executive function challenges, our tutoring services can make a significant difference. Our experienced teacher tutors are dedicated to helping students develop the skills they need for academic and personal success.
Unlock Your Child’s Potential Today!
Unlocking your child’s potential starts with a conversation. Contact us today to learn how executive function tutoring can help and support your child’s academic outcomes as well as provide a solid foundation of lifelong skills for every day.
FAQs About Our Executive Function Tutoring
What Age Group Benefits from Executive Function Tutoring?
Our tutoring is beneficial for middle, high school, and college students. We tailor our approach to suit the developmental stage of each student.
How Often Should My Child Attend Tutoring Sessions?
The frequency of sessions depends on the individual needs of your child. Typically, we recommend weekly sessions for optimal progress. Weekly regular sessions encourage the development of habit – the key to bringing a child to being able to study independently.
How Soon Will We See Results?
While results can vary, many parents notice improvements in their child’s organization, time management, and overall confidence within a few weeks of starting tutoring.