Organization

Web Resources Related to Organization that Parents and Teachers Can View/Discuss with their Older Children.

(For best results, Google the bolded words for each article or video)

Becoming An Organized Student– Entertaining video, disguised as a Hollywood thriller trailer, about middle school students struggling with organization.

Four Ways to Get Organized– Another entertaining video created by middle school students offering four suggestions for ways to organize yourself for school.

How To Teach Your Kids About Organizing– This is a local news broadcast featuring Dr. Karen Gordon sharing tips on ways you can set up your home to help your younger child develop organization skills. Perhaps the most important message is not to do your children’s tasks for them, even though it may be done better by you.

Ten School Organization Tips for Students– This is a guide for middle school students and above from independent school Wilbraham and Monson Academy.

Organization Strategies for Students– From Stanford University, but meaningful to middle school and high school students, particularly those who want to get ahead of the organization learning curve.

Why and How to Teach Organization Skills to Middle School Students- This is a worthwhile video for Elementary and Middle School parents even though it is geared for teachers. The video includes a website article on the organization transitions from Elementary to Middle School.

Four Ways to Get Organized– Middle School student, Morgan, shares her tips on how to get organized in Middle School.   Students may appreciate that these recommendations come directly from the mind of another Middle School student.  Her priorities are well thought out and sincere.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/168251736052828507/– How to Stay organized For Middle School- Another video presented by a Middle School student with specific strategies for staying organized in Middle School.

How to Organize Your Life: 10 Habits of Really Organized People– This is an adult version of strategies for organization that your Middle School or High School student might benefit from. Sometimes, students will listen harder if they perceive the tasks involved demand a more adult perspective.

5 Steps to Raising an Organized Child | American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)– This is a long but very comprehensive look at teaching organization skills to children based on brain development, executive functioning, and healthcare principles by Dr. Damon Korb.

The Impact of Study Skills and Organizational Methods on Student Achievement– Researchers Jill M. Gambill, Lauralee A. Moss and Christie D. Vescogni report that in their analysis of students who struggle at three public schools, “all problems related to students who were not organized for learning”. They noted an inconsistent teaching of organizational skills throughout grade levels. “Students who never shape or settle schoolwork may not have skills to organize tasks and activities later in life…… As disorganization leads to lower grades and achievement, students are not prepared for the school side of life.”

The Best of Works4Me: Winning Tips from Classroom Teachers- A part of the National Education Association Checklist Series in which experienced teachers offer advice to novice teachers about their craft. The book is divided into six sections.  The entire second section is devoted to organization.  The title, “Getting Organized” refers both to the organizational strategies of setting up the classroom and the methods of teaching organizational strategies to students in the classroom.

Six Ways Well Organized People Get More Done Every Day– In an article from Entrepreneur magazine,John Rampton makes the case that successful people are organized people and that these people maintain regular organizational disciplines.

Ten Mindsets of Organized People Which Make Them Successful- Dan Philben writes for the website, Lifehack, about the things that organized people do to be successful.

Do you know another self- help book, children’s book, article, TedTalk, or video that focuses on organization? Let us know with a one or two sentence summary sent to author@johnzurn.com.