HomeworkCoach has developed two worksheets to help your child stay on top of schoolwork. Our hope is this may be especially useful during the pandemic when your student has to track multiple online assignments.
Daily Planner
Most useful, perhaps, is the daily planner. Click to download. Make a fresh copy for your student each day and have them (or help) look over all the online assignments for the day and write each one in the assignment slot. When they are all in, help them prioritize (Rank) and check they have what they need to get each assignment done. As an executive function skills building exercise, ask them to estimate how long each assignment will take. Then when they’ve done it, write the actual time taken. If the estimate was way off base, ask them what they’ve learned so they can estimate better next time. Also, most students ADHD need some short term reward so in the last column let them decide when they will take a break or get a snack or something they can look forward to.
Weekly Planner
Our 7-subject Planner is really designed for the student to take to school and fill it in as the school week progresses, so the capture new assignments as they are assigned. Then it’s used to create the Daily Planner each evening as the student sits down to do homework. If all work is online, this may be useful to give you and your student a big picture view of the week.
Let us know your comments about how useful our free planning tools are!
