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The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond

The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn't know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can't get to class on time.

This practical book is full of hands-on strategies for helping parents identify and teach organizational skills. Educational consultant Donna Goldberg has developed these methods by working with hundreds of students and in this book she provides:

• Assessments to gather information about your child's learning style, study habits, and school requirements

• Guidelines for taming that overstuffed binder and keeping it under control

• PACK -- a four-step plan for purging and reassembling a backpack or locker

• Instructions for organizing an at-home work space for the child who studies at a desk or the child who studies all over the house

• Ways to help your child graduate from telling time to managing time

• Special tips for kids with learning disabilities and kids who have two homes...and more

The Organized Student is a must for any parent who has heard the words, "I can't find my homework!"


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2005-06-28
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Where's My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide
• Super Study Skills (Scholastic Guides)
• Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room, Your Time, and Your Life
• Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
• Get Organized Without Losing It (Laugh And Learn)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent option for home schooling
Comment: I thought this was an excellent tool when I was home schooling my teenager. I have taught Study Skills at the college level and I wish I had been exposed to the ideas presented in this book. It is written in a way that is not offensive to the student or parent. i loaned my copy to a fellow parent. I recently ordered the book to help some employees with organizational issues.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good information
Comment: The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond

I thought this book contained good information and was easy to understand and follow. It wasn't anything earthshakingly new. I feel I could get the same information from the internet and talking with my sons teachers. I do like referring to it for ideas when we need it. It provides pictures that were extremely helpful for my visual son.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Truly Helpful
Comment: This is the second time I bought this book, because I loaned it to a friend and never got it back. That's how much she liked it, too. Practical and straight forward. I bought it to help organize my 4th grader who habitually forgot to bring homework home, or bring back to school. This book is aimed at parents rather than kids, and does an excellent job describing the deficiencies in adolescent Executive Function and how we, as parents, can help compensate. Highly recommend.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but not very good either
Comment: The book is readable, and it has nice hints about physical space, surroundings, etc. Unfortunately it is a little too commonsense and basic - do we really need pictures of office supplies to show us what they are? I am a bit disappointed.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good advice, but not practical for most
Comment: This book has several good tips (particularly on teaching the concept of time), but just how practical is it to teach a child a special organizational system, when many schools these days require the purchase AND use of a school planner? (Really a mandatory fundraiser, if you ask me.)

I have seen where the school planner use is actually part of the student's grade in some schools, so aren't you just making extra work for the student? The author's advice to work it out with the teacher could cause problems (Why is so-and-so excused from doing what the rest of the class has to?). Or worse, it could get your child labelled, which you might have an issue with.

It would be far better to just tell the student "This (a particular planner) is one of those things that you will just have to put up until you get out of this particular school. When you are out in the real world, no one will care how you keep track of important things, as long as the system works for you."

Mind you, I'm all for teaching organizational skills, and I do agree with the author no particular planner/system is a one-size-fits-all solution. But, until schools get the message that it is truly NONE of their business how a student keeps track of his/her responsibilities as long as assignments are turned in on time, this book would be much more useful for someone who is homeschooled, or going to a more enlightened public or private school, where one has more choice in how to keep track of things. An adult going back to school again might also find this book useful.

The author does tend to go overboard on some things, such as writing every little thing in a planner--really, who has time for that--and her assumption that every child is either over-scheduled with outside activities, and/or is having difficulty in school planning out how to do long-term assignments such as research papers, wears thin after a while.

I also took off a star for the book being printed on cheap newsprint, considering the price.

Borrow from your library first, before buying.

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