Students who struggle with executive functioning skills often have difficulties during classroom instruction and working sessions. That is because these are times when they are extensively using skills like attention, task initiation, time management, organization, and self-control. Accommodations are supports that can be put in place to help students with executive functioning needs. The goal […]
Executive Functioning Skills from A-Z
Executive functioning skills are in everything we do. Kids and teens use them when starting homework, working with partners, juggling daily responsibilities, staying focused in class, problem-solving with friends, and much more. Executive functioning skills are life skills. While it’s important to teach the ten core executive functioning skills explicitly, it’s also worthwhile expanding and […]
Executive Functioning Accommodations for Organization and Planning
Executive functioning skills are the abilities that help us accomplish daily tasks. For students, this includes seemingly simple tasks like following a schedule, finding a homework assignment to turn it in, and gathering necessary materials for a class. While these examples feel like simple and easy tasks for many of us, they are actually often […]
The 7 Best Times to Teach Executive Functioning Skills
All educators would likely agree that executive functioning skills are critical to student academic and social success. These are the skills that help learners plan for assignments, stay organized, use self-control to make good choices, use flexible thinking to solve problems, and persevere through challenges. The issue is usually when and how to make time […]
Strategies to Build Working Memory
Think of working memory like a mental sketch pad; a place to store information for short periods of time while we’re working through a task. Kids, teens, and adults use this skill on a daily basis to completely basic and complex tasks. For students, these tasks range from completing simple mental math in our heads […]
10 Executive Functioning Skills: The Ultimate Guide
What are executive functioning skills? Executive functioning skills are the important processes in our brain that help us finish tasks and meet our goals. If it sounds like we use them for everything we do, that’d be right – we do! It’s important to mention, though, that executive functioning skills are a huge umbrella. There […]
Helping Kids and Teens Who Struggle with Executive Functioning Skills
What are executive functioning skills and how can I support struggling learners? These are questions that many educators and parents have, and for good reason. Executive functioning skills are the processes in our brains that help us accomplish daily tasks. They include our abilities to organize materials, prioritize work, stay focused during activities, and persevere […]
25+ Everyday Ways to Build Executive Functioning Skills
Executive functioning skills are the complicated processes in our brains that help us accomplish everyday tasks. For kids and teens, these tasks might be things like starting morning work after entering the classroom, working through a long-term project, bringing the correct materials to class, and raising a hand to share thought in class. For many […]
How to Integrate Executive Functioning Skills into the Classroom
If we want learners to develop strong executive functioning skills, it is critical to integrate them into the daily classroom. Integrating executive functioning skills into classroom instruction just makes sense. In short, this means taking important skills like organization, planning, and self-control, and practicing them right alongside average daily tasks. At first it might seem […]
30+ Digital Executive Functioning Tools & Activities
Planning, organization, time management, attention, and self-control: These are just a few executive functioning skills that all kids and teens should learn. With such a focus on remote learning, I’ve put together a list with some digital tools and supports to help learners strengthen their executive functioning skills. It’s worth mentioning that these resources can […]
