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ACADEMIC COACHING FOR STUDENTS
Boca Raton, FL
HELPING MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS SUCCEED
Do You Wish You Could Get Your Child To Change Their Study Habits And Realize Their Full Potential?
Do you worry about your child's ability to remain organized, complete assignments and manage their time? You may have seen them getting frustrated and putting off work because it's too overwhelming. It may be time to consider academic coaching to help your child get back on track.
Education is more competitive than ever before. Young people are expected to stay on top of assignments and school work while balancing a social life, extracurriculars, family and overall happiness. Through academic coaching, we make sure your child is equipped to handle the increasing demands put upon them as they advance in their education.
Our main objective in academic coaching is to focus on building concrete executive function skills. Executive function skills are essential for academic performance, but they also impact our mental and emotional health, productivity and ability to maintain a work-life balance. The executive function skills we train include:
- Planning
- Prioritization
- Time management
- Organization
- Task Initiation
- Focused Attention
- Memorization
- Self-awareness
When your child works with us in academic coaching, they will be encouraged to identify old habits and learn strategies for building new ones. We will work with your child to create a customized plan using an evidence-based approach to guide them. However, change is a process that occurs in stages and at various speeds. But with time and consistency, you should notice a positive change in their attitude, stress levels and grades.
When your child works with their coach, they should feel a strong, positive chemistry. In fact, research demonstrates that the relationship between coach and client is one of the biggest predictors of success in coaching. We take this very seriously and make every effort to build a strong relationship with your child.
Academic Coaching Vs Tutoring
The main difference between academic coaching and tutoring is that the main objective of coaching is to build executive function skills which can help a student with a variety of subjects and are also essential life skills. The habits that the student will learn through executive function skills will transform them into better learners that will help them succeed in school and in their future. Tutoring usually focuses on helping a student with a specific subject they may be struggling with such as math. Although tutors can help with homework or preparing for a test, they usually do not instill time-management and organization skills into the student which are needed for long term success, but rather they help them learn information about a specific subject.
WHEN YOU COME TO US FOR aCADEMIC COACHING
We want your child to learn skills that won't only be beneficial to them now, but also in the future. When your child comes to us for academic coaching, we will assist them with:
What Our Process Looks Like for Academic Coaching
What Makes Us Different
We put our relationship with you and your child first and back it up with high-quality, research-supported approaches. We lead with authenticity and work hard to relate to your child on their level. Our approach to coaching is fully individualized because your child is unique. The three most common evidence-based methods we include are Executive function skills training which is a library of tools and strategies that specifically isolates and strengthens each tool, Motivational interviewing to help through the stages of change, and Cognitive Behavioral Coaching.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or 'coaching' when used in this capacity, helps people broaden their thinking and learn new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and emotions. Students develop a tool-kit of skills to overcome internal obstacles to academic success.
Motivational Interviewing is especially effective when working with students because it is a collaborative process that empowers them to take change into their own hands and replace ineffective habits with more helpful ones. The approach is especially helpful for clients who are resistant or doubtful about changing their behavior.
Executive function skills are the foundation of adulting in everyday life. We train these skills directly using a wide variety of tools and strategies and apply them to academics to increase performance. Students with good executive functioning experience higher productivity and reduced overwhelm.
Frequently asked questions
It is not uncommon to resist help. Overcoming barriers to coaching is a normal part of the process and should not deter parents from getting professional help. We are skilled at working through these kinds of barriers and, while you should expect the process to take more time, it is likely that your child will benefit from academic coaching.
The process of change takes time and consistent support is critical for success. We recommend once/week sessions until your child is able to apply executive function skills on their own. Sessions can gradually reduce in frequency when our goal shifts to maintaining progress.
The extent of parent involvement depends on the age of your child and the nature of their struggles. We try to offer a reasonable amount of confidentiality so that your child feels comfortable to be honest and open throughout the process. Some clients benefit from sessions with frequent parent inclusion, while others do better when coaching is their own private space. We always inform parents of safety issues and will involve parents in coahing to the extent necessary for achieving our goals.
Not typically. Unfortunately, most insurance providers do not cover coaching services of any kind. Check with your insurance company directly to be sure.