4 Steps That Can Help Students in Any Grade…

Children Do Poorly in School Because Educators Don’t Teach Students How to Organize…

 

Stand in any classroom and you will find students fumbling around in messy notebooks and backpacks looking for their assignments and supplies. In today’s busy classrooms, fundamental skills such as getting organized are often overlooked, and this causes many children to fall behind. www.scottstraub.com

 

In those same hectic classrooms, fundamental skills are not being taught because of added pressure on educators from federal and state authorities, principals, and parents. Skills such as how to organize notebooks, lockers, and backpacks, are often glossed over, or not even taught, and for many students that means it is sink or swim in the classroom.

 

Step into any classroom and you will find students fumbling around in messy notebooks and backpacks looking for the day’s assignments and materials. Walk down any middle school hallway and kids will be frantically staring into their overcrowded, disorganized lockers scrambling to locate textbooks, trying to make it to class on time.

 

When teachers were asked if unprepared children do worse in school, they responded with a resounding “YES”, but who is teaching these struggling students how to cope with today’s fast-paced classrooms? Yet, the lack of basic organizational and memory skills is often the cause of declining grades and self-esteem in children.

Fortunately, there are ways to correct this prevalent problem. By using my four step PORR method, any locker, notebook or backpack can be organized in no time. Here are the steps.

 

1. Purge – Completely empty out each notebook, locker, and backpack.

2. Organize – Use a checklist of necessary materials to re-organize everything. There must be a place for everything!

3. Replace – Replace all books and supplies in the correct place.

4. Restock and Repeat – Restock with needed supplies and repeat as necessary.

 

If you need a working model of a neat notebook, for example, have your child find a classmate who is already organized and have them show your child how they stay organized. Modeling good habits and systems can be the fastest method to change a child’s messy ways.

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