Back to School/ Developing a Child Resume or Vision Statement

It is Back to School time!  Are you ready?  I like to send a one-page document with some brief information about my child the first day of school.  In this child resume or vision statement document, I list 5 distinct areas.  I give a one to two sentence(s) vision for the progress or focus for the upcoming school year.  I call that my vision statement.  Then, I focus on listing some of my strengths.  I try to use bullet points to keep the information easy to digest.  Next, I list a few challenges my child has.  The following section focuses on tips, techniques or strategies that do work for my child.  These could be giving wait time, using a timer before transitioning activities, using a first/then picture board.  I try to keep these bullets to about 3-5 items.  I also list a few bullets of “things that do not work”.  These could range from yelling, socially isolating, or any other action that does not help.

Why do you write a resume? You want others to see your value and your skills.  That is why I think it is so important to create a resume for your child.  This builds a road map for your team to see where we are and where we would like to go in the future.

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