Organizational & Social Skills
Instructors spend time decoding tests and quizzes with students to reveal the cause related to their mistakes

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

 
ORGANIZATION is an area of weakness for students with learning differences.

An exclusive organizational program developed by Oak Hill Academy and designed to provide a simple, systematic approach that improves the physical and mental organizational skills of our students. It also eliminates many of the problems parents experience due to their child’s weaknesses in those areas. Core 3 through Upper School students are taught to utilize a specific set of systematic organizational tools incorporated into SOS.

OHA CUSTOM STUDENT PLANNER
The OHA Custom Student Planner serves one semester at a time. Planners are distributed to students on the first day of class of each semester, and allow time planning for seven days a week, as well as Monday-Friday after school hours.

ZEFFER
ZEFFER is a canvas zippered expanding/accordion file. It is organized in a systematic, grade-level to grade-level, teacher-to-teacher format that ensure continuity and predictability which are key components to success for students with learning differences.

TUB FILE
Each student will have a TUB FILE for which to save and file tests, quizzes, class work and notes from completed units of study.

DECODING TEST & QUIZZES
Students need to develop the habit and skill of decoding tests and quizzes. This process reveals the reasons for mistakes made during the test taking process, and allows students to problem solve in ways that lead to improved study skills and test taking success.

GO FOLDERS
Go Folders are sent home with students every Thursday, and contain important communication between the school and parents, as well as completed class work that is no longer needed at school. It is the responsibility of both parents and students to review the contents of the GO FOLDER on Thursday evening. Students return GO FOLDERS to their Advisor on Friday mornings.

 

 

Learning how to be a teammate can be difficult for some children

SOCIAL SKILLS

SOCIAL AWARENESS is often an area of weakness for children with diagnosed learning differences

We tend to consider school a place where children go to learn facts, concepts, and academic skills.  But there is another side of school that is just as important, and often times equally challenging for students with learning differences.  The social side of school involves making friends, keeping friends and learning how to be part of the world of one's own age group.  And it can be one of the most difficult parts of school.

Some of the most important social skills for students to acquire and implement during their growing years are:

(1) Developing Relationships, (2) Maintaining Relationships, (3) Sending and Receiving Social Feedback, (4) Speaking and Understanding Social Language.

 

Oak Hill Academy's social skills curriculum is designed to meet the needs of students challenged by deficits in social development, and is differentiated by the age level of students.  Children in lower core classes, specifically Pre-Primary and Core K, spend more time developing basic skills such as eye contact.  Elementary core students move on through the continuum of more complex skills at a faster pace and, over their elementary education experience, benefit from the reintroduction and repetition of exercises that support the eventual acquisition of the complex skills.  Middle School and Upper School students benefit from role play activities followed by group discussion and strategy time.