Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits (Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools) by Peg Dawson

Practical Intervention in the Schools Series

by Peg Dawson

This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured; the large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate photocopying. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.

Genres: Education

Paperback

First published February 7, 2012

About the author

Peg Dawson, Ed.D., received her doctorate in school/child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia. She worked as a school psychologist for 16 years in Maine and New Hampshire, and, for the past 18 years has worked at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she
specializes in the assessments of children and adults with learning and attention disorders and provides training on assessment, attention deficits, learning disabilities and executive skills.
Peg has many years of organizational experience at the state, national, and international level, and served in many capacities, including president, of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the International School Psychology Association. She has also participated in many of NASP’s leadership initiatives, including the Futures Conference and the development of both the second and third Blueprint for the Training and Practice of School Psychology. She is the 2006 recipient of the National Association of School Psychologists’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Peg has written numerous articles and book chapters on retention, ability grouping, reading disorders, attention disorders, the use of interviews in the assessment process, and homework. Along with her colleague, Dr. Richard Guare, she has written several books, including a manual on coaching students with attention disorders as well as books for both parents and professionals on executive skills.

Reviews

[Настя Мельниченко · Rating 4 out of 5]

Хороша книжка, але не для українських реалій

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read on executive skills, coaching, and how to integrate these concepts into a classroom. The main focus was elementary and secondary classrooms, but the authors did make some connections with the college classroom.

I used the Executives Skills Questionnaire from the appendix with my students at the beginning of the semester and then led a discussion about how knowing their strengths and weaknesses can help them plan for success in the course. For my introductory psychology course, we also talked about how executive skills highlight the different interests of psychology (e.g., biopsychology, cognitive psychology, school/educational psychology, personality).

Many thanks to the UCA Center for Teaching and Leadership for this book and the encouragement to explore executive skills training/coaching as a tool for supporting content mastery and life integration in our college classrooms.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book explains a coaching model and includes strategies for helping students with executive functioning skills improve academically, socially, and behaviorally. The book also included reproducible materials.

[Daniela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Handig boek voor iedere docent die meer wil coachen op executieve functies.

[Bess Tamton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great resource. Goal setting and coaching is so effective and yields a good return on investment.

[Carrie B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helpful for teachers and therapists