Time Management Skills for Academic Success

Does your child struggle with organizational skills and time management? Is it stressful when a major project or assignment with a deadline is given and the student does not know the first thing about how to start? Are math tests an absolute source of anxiety at your dinner table every time one is near? Having an experienced in-person or online academic tutor and coach who specializes in teaching time management skills can help students organize short and long term assignments and prepare for tests in any subject including history, math, English, science and Spanish. Breaking large tasks into meaningful chunks can take away extra pressure and make an organized study schedule. Studying for shorter periods of time but more often can be a major step to learning the material in a more solid way. A savvy time management tutor can help students make better use of their valuable study time to prepare for quizzes, finish major assignments and prepare for final exams. Time management tutors can help kids increase confidence, grades and test scores while reducing anxiety.

Does your child sometimes fill the entire backpack with papers, many of which have no rhyme or reason? Are there pages flying out of the backpack leaving a trail on the hallway floor? Having a proper, methodical binder and organization system can take the guess work out of having to go back and find an assignment given by the teacher that may be due in 24 hours. Do you hope that your struggling student could learn to write better essays as he or she enters high school or college? Having an English tutor by your side to teach the five paragraph essay, the pre-writing process, outlining techniques, grammar, spelling, punctuation, close reading, vocabulary, or sentence structure is a way to ensure better writing skills in the future. While teaching English, the tutor can also teach how to plan out longer term papers into shorter tasks. Cognitive mapping is a great start to the writing process, mind maps lead to more sentences formulated, topic sentences are written, paragraphs and the the final essay with a conclusion. As a result, grades and scores as well as confidence improve.