A successful school experience includes many important skills. One skill towers over the rest. ORGANIZATION!

Organized students are in control of their grades and in charge of their school success. Organizational skills don’t become a habit overnight. The organizational skills our children need to be successful scholastically must begin to be learned in the primary years. Elementary students that struggle with organization find middle school frustrating and unrewarding and it only becomes worse as when they enter high school.

Follow up:

To achieve organizational success the student must practice, hone, and perfect their unique organizational systems. Since no two students learn in exactly the same way there is no one size fits all method for organizing their study time. What is important that each child develop an organizational system that fits the way they learn.

As a parent you can watch for clues that demonstrate your child is coping well with organizational success. Positive signs will show efficiently managed homework assignments, books in tow, no frantic calls home to drop off the project they forgot, and deadlines met consistently. Clues that your child has mastered a successful organization and time management system are found in the grade books with high marks earned.

Inefficiencies in organization are clearly evident by your child's mounting frustration and constant battles over studying. Homework time soon becomes more about drinks of water and trips to the bathroom than about completing coursework. As tension between parent and child increases, assignments that your son or daughter could easily complete in thirty minutes often take hours; and frequent frantic trips are made to the all night grocery store for glue sticks and poster board for projects assigned weeks before.

Success in school is heavily dependent on mastering the important skill of organization. Help your child learn to implement excellent skills early. If your child does not seem to grasp these skills naturally it may be time to call in a professional for guidance and skill training one-on-one!