Professional Development
For Parents, Students and other Professionals
New England Tutors’ goal is to see that every student is inspired, challenged, and supported at all ages and abilities. To achieve this goal, and to reach as many students as possible, we have designed specialized training courses for Teachers, Case Managers, Therapists, Administrators, Para-Professionals, and even Parents, to help everyone work better with students.
In-Service Development Programs
Executive Skills Coaching
Peg Dawson, ED.D. will facilitate this dynamic course focusing on how to coach students with executive skills deficits. The course emphasizes the unique differences of coaching versus tutoring or strategy instruction to help students succeed. By introducing the concept of “recognizing how to learn by understanding the process of learning”, executive skills coaching reaches far beyond other student support services. The course uses The Work Smart Academic Planner, developed by Peg. This 6-part course meets once a month for 2 hours. Each class provides detailed instruction, useful tools and a variety of methods that are effective.
Executive Skills Coaching Training for the Parent, Caregiver or Educator
This is an online program with one on one individual training with our Master Coach Jamie Barber. This program includes the following and is customized to the individual and their specific goals.
- 4 hours of video training
- 8 hours live training and engagement with the master coach.
- Textbook “Coaching Students with Executive Skills Deficits” Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
- Supplemental worksheets and digital resource
Graduates of this program can:
- Define executive function skills and learn how these skills affect students
- Learn to recognize executive function deficits in students
- Learn to help students understand their executive function profile—both strengths and weaknesses
- Understand the coaching model and how it can lead to strength-based support for students
- Learn to utilize the coaching model in a weekly or daily format
- Learn how the coaching model gets students to engage in goal-directed behavior
- Learn to build and fade supports as appropriate for individual students
- Learn positive ways to define and discuss executive skill deficits, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder and other conditions that may lead to executive skill deficits.
- Learn to track student progress to encourage personal accountability
- Learn how to help students build a support team of parents, educators, friends, and outside professionals to work toward their goals.
- Build model supports for future use with student
