The Prentice School Bi-Annual conference
A Day with Michelle Garcia Winner
Workshop Topic
Organized Thinking: Dealing with the Dreaded Homework Assignment and
Everything Else a Student Wants to Postpone
This workshop focuses on executive functioning
skills and related practical strategies to track and tackle homework and other
deadline-based duties. The vast majority of students with social cognitive deficits
have immense difficulty developing organizational skills to manage the
increasing complex expectations of life in upper elementary, middle, high school
and into their adult years. Organizational skills can be mammoth
overwhelming tasks for even the most intellectually sharp students with
social cognitive deficits. The impact of poor organizational skills is
immense, affecting one’s outcome in school as well as at home and work.
Weak organizational skills are poorly understood and often written
off as pure laziness on the part of a “smart” student. Relatively little
support is given to teach students to develop these critical skills that carry
over into their future jobs and home-life as adults.
This workshop is not a general description of
the issues. Instead, Michelle Garcia Winner will guide the audience
to explore the key concepts and then provide explicit strategies to help
teach these complex ideas!
Time & Location
8:30 am - 3:30 p.m. Upper Room at the Worship Center 5001 Newport Coast Drive Irvine, CA 92603
Continental Breakfast and Lunch Included
About the Speaker
Michelle Garcia Winner is a Congressional award winning speech-language pathologist
who specializes in treating students who are experiencing social and
communication challenges. Internationally recognized as a thoughtful and
prolific writer in the area of social thinking/social skills, she travels
around the world speaking on a multitude of topics relating to social thinking,
and repeatedly receives accolades for her educational, energetic and
enthusiastic workshop presentations.
The heart of Michelle’s work
is illuminating the often elusive and intangible world of Social Thinking,
and developing practical strategies that can be easily used by parents,
educators and service providers, across different environments, to teach the
Social Thinking required for the development of real social skills. Her goal is
to raise awareness among administrators, educators and parents about the
critical role that Social Thinking and related social skills play in every
student’s life, not only in achieving academic success, but also for success in
adulthood and life in general. Michelle directs a clinic in San Jose, CA,
where she works with clients, trains other professionals and consults
with families and schools. www.socialthinking.com
Register today!
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