Coaching Students With Executive Skills Deficits

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Coaching Students With Executive Skills Deficits

• Dawson Guare 5

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Notes on Coaching Grew out of mentoring (ADHD
Children) Barkley 1993? organizing and
remembering their material Mainly the coach
keeps the player focused on the task at Hand,
offering encouragement along the way In order to
be successful there must be a verbal
commitment to engage in the behavior
correspondence training
The coaching process requires the student
willingness and active participation in the
activity

• As an intervention, coaching operates
  simultaneously at three levels
• Successful accomplishment of tasks according to a
  performance standard
• Relationship between day-to-day task and the
  student long term goal?
• sense of accomplishment
• 3. Daily executive skills instruction and fading

Do not coerce students into a coaching
situation!!!
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• Steps in Coaching Sessions
• 1. Conduct a goal setting session
• Timed
• Identification of potential obstacles
• Write a plan to achieve the goal
• Hold daily coaching sessions?to make plans for
  the day
• Completed?
• Satisfied?
• List for today
• Other responsibilities
• Long term projects
• Are you on target to achieve goal

• Building Coaching into the Student Educational
  Program
• Does the problem lend itself toa coaching
  situation?
• Is the student a willing active participant?
• Can a good fit between the student and the coach
  be achieved?
• Does the perspective coach understand the
  commitment?
• Is there a plan for gradually fading the
  intervention?