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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My student has an executive function coach that meets with her (virtually) Monday morning and Friday morning and reviews upcoming tests, papers, deadlines, etc.   They develop a study plan to the week and then for the weekend. It has been immensely helpful.  I doubt we will do it all four years, but it has been a good start.[/quote]

NP here. How did you find this? DC is getting their butt kicked in two classes this first semester - political science and history classes. They’ve met with the professors and the repeated comment is they aren’t analytical enough in their essays, seem to be able to regurgitate the readings but have trouble applying the concepts, etc. (This was a 4.0 kid in HS with all 5s on their 15 APs incl every social science offerring. They are feeling very demoralized.) I am not sure what kind of tutoring to even suggest that DC seek, but I suspect they need some “back to basics” type tutoring teaching them how to note take and study. [/quote]

honeslty the feedback that your DC is getting should help them learn how to respond in the essays. Its a learning experience. if all else fails, see if they have a writing tutor kind of situation who can help. My DD is doing a philosophy minor and in the process had to learn an entirely different way to write essays, also was a straight A student in HS. Now that she's a junior, she's got it all figured out, but it was a little bit of trial and error and talking to professors to get feedback. [/quote]

Does the school have a Writing Center on campus? This can help a lot with peer reviews and guidance. They still have to write the paper but it was extremely helpful for our freshman. However, it sounds like the student likely wasn't prepared for college writing, even with the outstanding HS grades. It's not uncommon. College expectations are a shift. Our student recently shared with us his learning rubric for an essay - it was longer than the paper! Reading through it I was surprised by the level of details they wanted in the first paper for the class. [/quote]

I am the NP above, and I apologize for taking this off of OP’s point bc her child is focused on math struggle (and I do think one on one tutoring and practice are the best aids for that - many people struggle with processing math instruction in whole class settings).

But there aren’t any writing assignments that my DC can take to the writing center. These classes are basically midterm/final only, and Dac bombed the midterms and when they went to talk to the professors, the professors said there wasn’t enough analysis/application of concepts in the midterm essays, or else it had been done incorrectly. They didn’t get detailed feedback at all other than those statements.

I appreciate the support and suggestions, I just don’t think the writing center can be of help in this situation - for essays to be worked on outside of class, absolutely it would be. DC is now meeting regularly with the profs, and I encouraged a study group like another poster suggested (although they don’t know anyone in the class so I suspect they won’t pull that together, but we can only suggest!). [/quote]

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