SOAR® Professional Development for Teachers -
Responding to Intervention with Study Skills
If you have students that are disorganized, mismanage their time, do not know how to study, have missing and late assignments, and are not working to their potential, the SOAR® System will provide them with tools for being more successful in school. Strategies in the program cover the following domains of studying:
- Time and task-management
- Goal setting
- Paper organization
- Reading skills
- Homework/project planning
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Each of the strategies taught in the SOAR® System are designed to be student-friendly; they are easy to learn, provide immediate results, and help students study more efficiently so that homework can be done in less time.
The SOAR® System is broken down into four fundamental principles: Set goals, Organize, Ask questions, Record your progress. These core strategies cover the most fundamental skills for school success and interrelate with one another, making it easy for students to learn and use them immediately. The techniques within each section lay a foundation for the following section and conversely, reinforce strategies from previous sections.
“Wonderful organizational ideas for students…prioritizing would be great to use with students. The writing tools will also be a significant help!”
- Nancy Anderson, high school resource teacher
Not only will educators learn the SOAR® strategies, they will also learn:
- How to effectively teach the strategies to students and motivate them for success. Educators will learn why each strategy was selected for this program and how to maintain the integrity of keeping strategies simple. They will also learn how to emphasize the concept of finding a balance between school and fun, so students will be more receptive towards the program.
- Hands-on activities they can do to reinforce the concepts and strategies. As educators, we know it is always better to “show, not tell,” which is key to making SOAR® accessible for students. Teachers will learn how to prepare supplies and demonstrations for each component of the program.
- Common “complaints” and “excuses” they are likely to hear from students and how to respond to them. In every group, there is always a “naysayer” or two. After teaching the program for so many years, we have heard a lot of excuses from students. We will help you turn these negative comments around into something positive.
- Suggestions for pacing the instruction over time.
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On-site inservices or tele-classes are currently available for schools/educators who would like to use the program in their classrooms. Training for educators is available as a one day in-service at your school site or via tele-class for a total of six hours. In addition to the initial training, we will also schedule two fifty-minute sessions via tele-conference to check on the progress of the program in the classroom(s) and answer questions as educators begin to teach the program.
For more information about SOAR® Study Skills for educators, please contact us.
