Academic Coaching

Students will learn the importance of creating academic goals and then understand strategies to achieve them. Individual goals for the academic coaching program will also be identified to track throughout the academic coaching program. 

Students will learn how to create an organization system to manage their materials better. Steps for better organization as well as tools to help declutter will be reviewed.

Metacognition is understanding your thinking process and learning style through self reflection. It is important for students to understand how they think and how to build study habits that reflect their thinking patterns. 

Many students will procrastinate on large assignments or mismanage their time preparing for an exam. Time management will teach students how to organize their day to day schedule while also finding a planning approach that best suits their needs. Learning time management will decrease stress and increase success by providing students with tools to better manage their time and pace out large assignments.

Students will learn best practices for note taking, creating effective flashcards, and other technological tools. Students often cram last minute for tests and exams which can lead to poor grades. By learning how to pace out their studying and creating helpful study guides they can build up their knowledge over time.

Students may do all that they can to prepare for a test, but on test day there are many other factors that could impact their scoring. Are they reading directions carefully? Are they checking their work? Are they managing their time effectively? Students will learn techniques that can be applied on all tests that they take. Students will also learn stress management techniques so that they can mitigate anxiety on test day.

Many times when a student encounters a roadblock in their learning goals, they may choose to halt their progress instead of persevering. Learning how to adjust to a situation by overcoming obstacles is essential to build stronger learning abilities. Flexible thinking combines thinking about something in a new way and then taking action to step away from one way of doing something and pivoting to a new approach.