1. Help Your Child to Be More Organized
Thursday 11th October 2018

2. Welcome
Housekeeping: fire, toilets, refreshments

3. Activate your thinking!
Take a minute or 2 and remember a time when you were in a learning situation – NOT IN SCHOOL

4. Answer the following questions about your learning experience:
1. What strategies did you have to use to organize yourself?
2. What strategy helped you the most to be successful?
Answer the following questions about your learning experience:

5. To start come to a shared understanding of organization skills and how it connects to your child’s learning.
Shared Outcome

6. Discuss what routines and systems you have in place at the moment
Discuss what routines and systems you have in place at the moment. Record this on the paper on your table.
Activity #1
What does it look like?

7. Activity #2 Everyone’s students and situations are different.
Discuss ideas that you think may help your student.
Activity #2

8. Organization Create a specific area for school stuff Create routines
Time to talk
Organization
Incentives
Checklists
e.g. 4 things to do before bed
Weekly clean up of backpack
Paper, pens, pencils
Trays

9. Keep it light!
Only carry what you need
Clear it out weekly!

10. 4 things to do before bed 1. Pack your backpack/binder:
books for specific day e.g. Day B
planner
completed homework
ipad fully charged
Student ID card and lunch card
2. Lay out school uniform
3. Read for ½ hour
4. Brush teeth
4 things to do before bed