What Are Executive Functioning Skills?
Ever wonder how you manage to stay focused on your goals, make plans, and control impulses? Or perhaps you’ve wondered why your college student is facing challenges like time management and problem solving? There are these powerful tools in our brain called Executive Functioning Skills. These skills are an important process that help us finish tasks and meet our goals.
Executive Functioning Skills are responsible for many abilities, such as planning, staying focused, filtering distractions, and adapting to situations. What’s interesting is that we’re not even born with these skills! They develop and evolve over time, influenced by our early life experiences.
Our genes provide the blueprint, but the environment in which we live in during childhood and adolescence shape how these skills develop. This makes providing the right support important, whether it’s at home, in school, or in other everyday settings.
Why is it important to learn Executive Functioning Skills?
They support academic growth!
These skills are not only necessary for academic success though, they help your student make healthy and positive choices beyond the classroom.
Your student can learn the necessary executive functioning skills to become more organized, efficient, and effective at managing college AND their everyday life. That’s a win-win in our book!
At Your Academic Coach, we’re here to guide your student on their journey to mastering a full suite of essential executive skills, including:
- Time Management
- Systems and Routines
- Successful Habit Formation
- Focus and Attention
- Initiation and Follow Through
- Test Taking Strategies
- Effective Study Skills and Strategies
Are you ready to watch your child thrive and grow as a young adult? We are too!
Book a Discovery Call with us today, and let’s kickstart the journey to success together. Our team of Academic Coaches is here to support your student’s unique needs, making their college journey as smooth as possible.
