Course Description
The Teaching Seeing My Time® Course is a unique, scaffolded approach to teaching students and adults how to develop the executive function skills of planning, time management and organization. It is designed for professionals and education specialists to support their executive function challenged clients/students and those with ADHD.
This course will enable you to teach your students and clients to:
- Understand the connection between their brain's executive functions and behavior
- Choose external tools that support their brain
- Take ownership of their choices and behavior
- Manage their time, projects, papers and goals
In this course, you will:
- Receive nine weeks of instruction videos with Marydee Sklar, creator of the Seeing My Time® Course
- Participate in two live Q&A sessions
- Experience the Seeing My Time program as one of our clients, completing your own workbook
- Hear stories and examples that will bring the Seeing My Time course to life
- Reinforce your learning by leading a practice client through the workbook
- Receive support from Julie and your peers through discussion within the online classroom
- Access supplemental videos, handouts and resources
- Upon successful completion, earn a certificate documenting 12 professional development hours.
Syllabus and Lesson Preview
- Instruments to Assess Executive Function Skills
- From Children's Health Council: Helping Students to Cope with Traumatic Events
- Tackling Unhealed Trauma: Article from Harvard Graduate School of Education
- ADDitude Article Highlighting Issues Specific to BIPOC Population
- Why Sleep Matters
- Verbal to Visual - Taking Visual Notes
- Curriculum for Younger Students
- Article on Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn
- Additional Recommended Reading (after course completion)
- How to Navigate Within the Classroom
- How to Enable and Disable Closed Caption Option
- Tip: Keeping Your Work Organized for this Class
- How many sessions will I need with my practice client to finish the workbook? (3:17)
- Classroom Download List
- Lecture 1: Why Marydee will not go through the SMT workbook in order (6 minutes) (5:45)
- Lecture 2: Setting the Stage for Success with Seeing My Time (15 minutes) (14:53)
- Lecture 3: Introducing the SMT Workbook - Title Page and Pages 9 & 10 (6 min) (6:06)
- Lecture 4: Professional Tips: Managing Parents in Family Sessions (7 minutes) (6:42)
- Lecture 5: Page 11 - Guided Student Self-Assessment (22 minutes) (21:57)
- Lecture 6: Page 12 - Adult Self-Assessment (6 minutes) (6:16)
- Lecture 7: Page 13 - Assessing Your Brain’s Executive Functions: Part 1 (12 minutes) (11:35)
- Lecture 8: Page 66 - Check Out #1 (3 minutes) (3:16)
- Reflection - Complete Prior to Session 2
- Word Choices (4:15)
- Lecture 1: Page 66: Check In for Week 2 (7 minutes) (6:31)
- Lecture 2: Page 13 - Assessing Your Brain’s Executive Functions: Part 2 (15 minutes) (14:38)
- Lecture 3: Page 13 - Assessing Your Brain’s Executive Functions: Part 3 (15 minutes) (19:05)
- Lecture 4: Professional Tips: Consider Issues Beyond Executive Function Deficits (5 Minutes) (4:52)
- Lecture 5: Professional Tips: Use a Whiteboard (5 Minutes) (4:35)
- Lecture 6: Page 14 - Metacognition (7 Minutes) (6:34)
- Lecture 7: Page 14 - Brain Development (19 Minutes) (18:32)
- Lecture 8: Page 67 - Check Out Week #2 (6 Minutes) (5:57)
- Reflection - Complete Prior to Session 3
- Lecture 1: Page 67 - Check In for Week #3 (4 Minutes) (3:41)
- Lecture 2: Page 14 - Sound or Picture Brain? (7 Minutes) (4:23)
- Lecture 3: Page 14 - What is learning? (6 Minutes) (5:51)
- Lecture 4: Page 17 - The First Truth of Time (8 Minutes) (7:29)
- Lecture 5: Page 18 - Time Tools -Analog Clocks (10 minutes) (9:59)
- Lecture 6: Page 18 - Digital Timers (7 minutes) (6:57)
- Lecture 7: Page 20- Dopamine Reward System (13 minutes) (12:35)
- Lecture 8: Page 18 - Monthly Calendars (12 minutes) (11:48)
- Lecture 9: Pages 18 & 20 - Day Plans (11 minutes) (10:37)
- Lecture 10: Pages 68 - Check Out #3 (2 Minutes) (1:37)
- Reflection 3 - Complete Prior to Session 4
- Assignment for Week 3
- Lecture 1: Page 68 - Check In for Week #4 (4 minutes) (2:53)
- Lecture 2: Page 15 - Learning and Behavior? (18 minutes) (17:20)
- Lecture 3: Page 15 - All Good Learners Must Be (16 minutes) (15:20)
- Lecture 4: Page 18 - Weekly Plans (1 minute) (1:05)
- Lecture 5: Page 18 - The Dry Erase Board as a Time Tool (10 minutes) (10:17)
- Lecture 6: Page 19 - Such is Life (9 minutes) (8:31)
- Lecture 7: Page 21 - The Second Truth of Time (9 minutes) (4:45)
- Lecture 8: Page 22 - Seeing What Takes Up the Space of My Time (10 minutes) (9:12)
- Lecture 9: Page 69 - Check out #4 (2 minutes) (1:22)
- Reflection 4 - Complete Prior to Week 5
- Time Tools Forms (PDFs From Seeing My Time Workbook, pg. 57)
- Lecture 1: Page 69 - Check In for Week #5 (2 Minutes) (1:19)
- Lecture 2: Page 15 - What Shaped Head Do You Have? (15 Minutes) (14:29)
- Lecture 3: Pro Tip: McCloskey’s Venn Diagram (7 Minutes) (7:51)
- Lecture 4: Page 23 - The Space in a Week (6 Minutes) (6:06)
- Lecture 5: Gather Materials before the Next Video (3 Minutes) (2:35)
- Lecture 6: Use Flags for Tasks on an After School Weekly Commitment Form (9 Minutes) (8:49)
- Lecture 7: Page 24 - Summary of Weekly Planning (10 Minutes) (9:43)
- Lecture 8: Adults Using the Time Forms (8 Minutes) (7:50)
- Lecture 9: Page 25 - We Do What is In Front of Us (2 Minutes) (2:07)
- Lecture 10: Page 27 - Meeting Due Dates (3 Minutes) (2:43)
- Lecture 11: Page 28 - Getting Projects Done on Time (3 Minutes) (2:41)
- Lecture 12: Page 29 - Seeing My Assignment (6 Minutes) (5:19)
- Lecture 13: Page 70 - Check Out #5 (2 Minutes) (1:17)
- Reflection 5 - Complete Prior to Session 6
- Using the Set Up Success Student Planner for Seeing My Time
- Lecture 1: Page 70 - Check In for Week #6 (2 Minutes) (1:38)
- Lecture 2: Page 30 - Drawing My Assignment (18 Minutes) (17:55)
- Lecture 3: Page 31 - Planning Backwards and Assigning Time (29 Minutes) (28:20)
- Lecture 4: Page 32 - Planning the Time to Do the Steps (17 Minutes) (16:23)
- Lecture 5: Page 15 - Which Train? (16 Minutes) (15:22)
- Lecture 6: Page 71 - Check Out #6 (2 Minutes) (1:36)
- Reflection 6 - Complete Prior to Session 7
Teaching Seeing My Time: An Overview
In this video, Marydee Sklar, founder of Executive Functioning Success, introduces the Teaching Seeing My Time® course. Whether you’re an educator, therapist, or coach, this program provides the tools and strategies to support students and clients in developing lasting habits for success.

"I Love this Program!"
"I have to tell you how much I LOVE doing the Seeing My Time program with students and their parents. Thank you SO much for putting this all together and continuing to offer classes so I can keep myself strong and connected. It is incredibly rewarding to be a part of their journey and to be able to offer support, hope and positive communication!
-Annika Ahlstrom, Educator

"Fantastic!"
This course was absolutely fantastic! I have already had over 300 hours of ADHD coach training and I still learned so much from this course. The information was invaluable for myself and for my coaching practice.
-Michael Snyder, ADHD/Life Coach

"So Valuable."
"Thank you for an extremely valuable nine weeks with Seeing My Time! You have created a program that offers an incredible amount of information that can change lives. Thank you for dedicating yourself to sharing that information and helping others to spread it. I’m excited about moving forward and reaching more people."
- Linda Swanson, ADHD Coach
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I receive CEU's for this course?
While we do not provide CEU's for this course, you may earn a certificate of completion, contingent on viewing all of the lessons and adding comments and replies in the comment section of each content video. This certificate will document a total of 12 professional development hours. It is up to each individual student to contact their professional accrediting agency to determine if this course and its certificate will meet your requirements for CEU's or PDU's.
How long will the course remain available?
Access to the session, recordings, class forum discussion and handouts will be available for one year from the start date of the course.
I would like my school district to pay for tuition. Does Executive Functioning Success accept purchase orders?
Yes, we accept purchase orders. Please contact our office at [email protected] or 503-660-3279 to request a W-9. Once we receive a purchase order from your organization, we will send an invoice and you may enroll in the course.