High School Executive Functioning
Class
Candace Rydell
Learn all the tips, tricks, and strategies to be successful in high school, college, and life. Having a plan to walk through each step is helpful in building lifelong habits that will benefit learning. We will use a textbook and class time to learn and share skills. There will be no homework or grades, but you will want to practice what you are learning throughout the week in your other classes.
High School Executive Functioning Skills
Syllabus 23-24
Welcome to Executive Functioning for high school! This class is a relaxed yet comprehensive approach to the skills needed to organize, prepare, plan, manage time, self advocate, and initiate tasks. This course is a deeper, more personalized approach to improving academic skills for high school and beyond. EF skills are vital to everyday living as well as higher education.
Please bring text, notebook paper and pencil or pen to class. No grades will be given. This is a course to teach you about yourself and how to improve your habits and choices.
Text needed: THE STUDY SKILLS HANDBOOK, 5th edition by Stella Cottrell. ISBN: 978-1-137-61087-4
August
7 Welcome & Learning Style Inventory
14 Student success & expectations
21 Focus & attentiveness, Study skills
28 Class engagement & preparation
September
4-Labor Day, No School
11 Engagement, Taking Notes
18 Employability & your future
25 Personal Skills Audit
October
2 Transferring academic skills into employment skills
9 Preparing Personal Resume
16 Intelligence vs. intelligent study
23 Learning
30 Individual or Social Strategy for Learning
November
6 CREAM Strategy
13 CREAM Strategy
January
8 Time Management
15 Time Management
22 Stress Management
29 Collaboration: Working with Others
February
5 Preparation for Presentation & Public Speaking
12 Cultural Competency
19 Effective Reading & Annotating
26 Note Taking Strategies
March
4 Research
11-Spring Break, No School
18 Managing Information
25 Critical Thinking
April
1 Types of Writing
8 Writing in College
15 Developing Academic Writing
22 Writing Essays
29 Writing Essays
May
6 Managing assignments
13 Exam Strategies
Here is the class outline:
1. Week 1
Aug 7
Browse through your book. Think about what you want to learn from this course. Bring text to class next Monday. |
2. Week 2
Aug 14
We worked through chapter 1 in text if you missed class. No homework. |
3. Week 3
Aug 23
Review chapter 1 if you missed class Think about what helps you learn best. |
4. Week 4
Aug 28
Complete checklist on pp. 14-15. Bring to next class. What did you learn about yourself as a student? Where can you improve? No class Labor Day, September 4 |
5. Week 6
Sep 11
Bring your class schedule for 2023-2024 to class next week. |
6. Week 15
Nov 13
Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! See you back in class on January 8 |
7. Week 16
Jan 8
Please be sure to complete reading of chapter 3 before class Monday. Bring your book, a pencil, notebook paper. Be thinking about positive traits you have and skills you possess that you see as strengths. |
8. Week 17
Jan 15
Write a list of skills you possess that you can expand on. We will begin Bring to class next Monday. We will begin CV work in class next week. Complete reading chapter 3 before Monday. |
9. Week 18
Jan 24
Spend time this week listing skills, accomplishments, and experience you have gained and can add to your CV. Read chapter 4. |
10. Week 21
Feb 12
Complete reading chapter 4 before next Monday. |
11. Week 22
Feb 19
Read chapter 5 in text: CREAM strategy |
12. Week 23
Feb 26
Finish reading chapter 5 in text |
13. Week 24
Mar 6
Create a game to teach CREAM method to others Spring Break March 11-15 Please bring book and game to class after break |
14. Week 27
Apr 1
Be prepared to discuss your schedule next Monday. Bring your planner or calendar to class with your book. Read Chapter 6 (Time Management). |
15. Week 28
Apr 8
Bring your planner to class. Read all of chapter 6. Be prepared to share the time circles from this chapter we began in class |
16. Week 30
Apr 22
Complete time management strategies on p. 149 in text. Bring to class next week. Read chapter 7 before next week. Be prepared to share what you can take away from chapter 7. |