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Teaching Executive Functioning Skills to Students
You can successfully teach executive functioning skills to your students with the help of Everyday Speech! Executive function includes a set of mental skills that help learners plan, monitor, and successfully execute their goals. Learners who present with difficulty initiating tasks, goal-setting, sequencing steps, flexible thinking, organization, and time management may benefit from additional support with their executive functioning skills.
Lesson Plan – Using Your Free Executive Functioning Skills Material
1. Introduce the Benefits of Staying Organized
Everyday Speech’s Executive Functioning goal places a particular emphasis on the importance of staying organized. Staying organized means having a system and process to accomplish tasks. When students are organized they are more likely to stay on top of their responsibilities and successfully manage their tasks. Not being organized can lead to feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and anxious. To stay organized students should set a goal for what they are hoping to maintain organization around, choose an organizational strategy that works best for them, and then stay focused and committed to staying organized. Organization strategies include; making a to-do list, breaking down a goal into smaller steps, using labels or color-coded items to organize your things, and keeping notes or reminders on a notepad or your phone.
2. Watch our Staying Organized Video (click here for a free 30-day trial)
This modeling video teaches students the skills and strategies they can use to stay organized at school! This video will break the skills and strategies down into easily digestible steps and also provide your student with a live video model of what it looks like to implement the strategies! Check out the free sample clip below! All of our video lessons come with companion worksheets and the ability to share as homework so parents or other educators can be clued into the important work your students are doing!
3. Use Our Free Executive Functioning Skills Material
Our free material is Everyday Speech’s Executive Functioning goal poster. This visual tool can be downloaded, printed, posted in your learning space, or sent home with your students to help serve as a reminder of the different skills and strategies your students can use to stay organized and successfully manage their tasks.
Sample Executive Functioning Skills Video:
This sample Executive Functioning skills video is a great enhancement to this lesson! Everyday Speech provides real-life scenarios as age-appropriate actors model new skills. We offer a 30-day free trial for all of our social skills materials!
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