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.