Help Your Student Get Organized

How do we take this mess and make a good student out of him? Well, it’s a process that may take the patience of Gandhi and definitely a good sense of humor, but it can be done.

Does everyone have their boxing gloves on? If not, go get them because you are going to learn some effective skills to punch Executive Function Disorder (EFD) in the face. Just to review, a student with EFD has trouble:  A kid with EFD is easy to spot. His desk is crammed with papers, dissected pens and old, sticky fruit rollups. He is frantically pawing through all his folders and looking in the bottom of his backpack for homework he swears he did the night before. He hasn’t noticed everyone else has gotten out their textbooks and are busy annotating chapter three. He will inevitably start his poster on the American Revolution the night before it's due, leave the assignment sheet at school, and make his mother go to Walmart at 10 p.m. to …

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