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Interventions for Executive Functioning Challenges: Time Management

February 18, 2019 by pathway2success 1 Comment

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

Time management skills are essentially life skills. Kids and young adults need this skills now and in the future. All educators and parents want our learners to be able to work independently, use time well, and complete tasks on time. In order to meet these expectations, students need to learn, understand, and continually practice skills for time management.

Kids and young adults can benefit greatly from just learning what time management is and why it matters. The whole idea is that we can work smarter instead of harder, helping us to complete our work more efficiently in a shorter time frame. To kids who struggle with time management, this idea that they can learn tips and tricks to use their time better can actually sound like magic! Best of all, these skills are so broad that they can be integrated into every single thing we do. From every content area to every chore at home, we use time management skills (and they really DO pay off).

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

What is time management? Time management is having an accurate understanding of time and making decisions to complete tasks in a timely way. As with most other executive functioning skills, time management isn’t just one isolated skill. It includes being able to estimate how long tasks will take, prioritizing, dividing time between tasks, pacing yourself, using time wisely, and working to meet deadlines.

• Examples of Time Management •

Here are some examples of what strong time management skills might look like on the spot:

  • Prioritizing which homework assignments to start before beginning a list of work.
  • Someone pacing themselves on a test to make sure they finish in the given time frame.
  • Writing out a daily schedule to keep track of times and events.
  • Chunking a project into sections to complete it by a specific deadline.

• Possible Signs of Challenges with Time Management •

It’s important to think of time management as a foundational skill for overall success. Imagine this: A student understands the content in a class well. They start working on a graded project to demonstrate their knowledge. The student is doing a fantastic job – truly their best work! The problem is that they realize the deadline for the project is tomorrow and there is no way they will be finished on time. Does the student turn in a half-completed project? Turn it in late? Rush and complete work that isn’t their best quality? Give up and turn in nothing at all? All of these outcomes demonstrate a clear issue with time management. Simply put, time management skills are a critical element to doing our best work.

Possible signs of time management challenges might include:

  • A learner spending too long on one problem or section of an assignment.
  • A student working on an assignment due next week (or not working on anything at all) when they have other work that is due next period.
  • A student consistently actively working but not finishing assessments or other assignments in a given time period.
  • A student who appears to always be in a rush at the last minute to finish work.

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

• Interventions, Supports, and Strategies for Time Management •

As with all executive functioning skills, time management abilities can be strengthened and improved over time. Here are some strategies, activities, and ideas to help learners with time management challenges in the classroom:

  • Teach time management and other EF skills explicitly
  • Discuss and practice prioritizing with multiple tasks (one way to do this is make a list of assignments and go back and order them by importance)
  • Teach how to make checklists for a set of steps or tasks
  • Practice estimating time for different takes (you can even make it a game! “How long do you think it would take you to clean your room?”)
  • Use a visual timer to visually show how much time is left for a task or session
  • Use chimes to warn 5 (or 10) minutes before transitions
  • Maintain a relatively consistent and predictable daily schedule
  • Keep the class schedule listed in the same spot every day
  • Teach, practice, and discuss routines frequently
  • Have students put their schedules on the front of their binders or desks
  • Identify and reduce distractors (you can even call them time-eaters!)
  • Discuss and practice strategies for moving on when stuck (skipping a problem, rereading, asking a friend, etc.)
  • Practice, model, and teach organization (since it is easier to use our time well when we are orderly and organized)
  • Practice planning out longer project together with mini-deadlines along the way
  • Provide work check-ins to students to make sure they are on the right track
  • Teach how to maximize downtime (ex: if you finish your work early in study hall, look over other work and start something else!)
  • Teach students how to check-in with themselves (“How am I doing? Am I on track?)
  • Play time-based games (add a timer to most any game like Pictionary or Scrabble to get kids managing their time!)
  • Discuss and practice what it means to “pace yourself”

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

• Strategies for Parents to Support Time Management at Home •

Here are some strategies parents and families can use at home strengthen skills for time management:

  • Model and practice estimating how long a task might take
  • Create a home calendar with important events listed
  • Discuss daily priorities and tasks at a common time (such as breakfast)
  • Develop a daily schedule with dedicated homework and chore times
  • Use strategies to stay organized and tidy
  • Reduce and give limits for social media and television time
  • Practice making to-do lists together and ordering items by importance
  • Identify, discuss, and reduce distractions (“time-eaters”)
  • Establish routines (for morning, after school, and bedtime)
  • Avoid over-scheduling (kids and young adults need downtime to learn how to use their free time, too!)
  • Consider digital calendars or apps
  • Model and discuss thinking ahead (such as putting clothes out for the next day)
  • Use a timer for working sessions
  • Use and discuss deadlines for tasks (“Your room needs to be organized by Thursday.”)
  • Provide rewards and incentives for completing tasks (“When all your homework is done, you can have 30 minutes of video game time.”)

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2successIf you notice that your learners need some extra support with their time management and other executive functioning skills, I have units to target executive functioning skills for middle and high school learners and executive functioning skills for younger learners. Get all your materials in one spot to make teaching these skills a breeze!

This is a blog series focused on interventions to support executive functioning skills. Make sure you read up on interventions for planning and supports for organization!

 

20+ interventions and strategies for kids who struggle with time management! This blog post includes tools, tips, ideas, and printable resources for school AND at home to help young adults and teens learn to use time wisely, procrastinate less, and complete tasks well. Great for students with executive functioning challenges, ADHD, and more. #executivefunctioning #timemanagement #pathway2success

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Executive Functioning Skills, Social Emotional Learning, Special Education, Study Skills, Teaching, Tips for Teachers Tagged With: education, executive functioning, special education, teaching, time management

Making a “Getting to Know You” Fortune Teller

August 13, 2017 by pathway2success Leave a Comment

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

The start of the school year is the most critical time to help build positive relationships in your classroom. That’s why I’m always seeking new and fun ways to incorporate “getting to know you” activities for the back to school season. This is the best time to help all students feel part of the classroom community. Using a Getting to Know You Fortune Teller is a perfect activity for this. It’s a hands-on, fun, and interactive way to get your kids talking, sharing ideas, and bonding as a community of learners. It’s also important to mention that the activity also incorporates art, following directions, fine motor skills, taking turns, and writing.

First, kids use a list of over 100 getting to know you questions to come up with their top 8 questions to ask peers. They must choose two questions from each category: school, silly & fun, yourself, and activities. This helps so that kids ask each other a wide variety of questions.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Kids will write their questions in the fortune teller. It’s interesting to see what questions kids want to ask others!

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

If you need an accommodation for some students, you can hand out pre-made fortune teller sheets with the questions already written down. You might even choose to do this for the whole class if you need a time saver! Just simply pass out a different page to each student so that different questions are being asked around the room.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Kids will then spend time creativity coloring and designing their fortune tellers. This is also a great time for small group discussions at tables and desks.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Once they are colored, kids will cut out their fortune tellers around the dotted lines.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Next, they will fold their fortune tellers. It’s helpful to use the picture directions so that kids can follow along easily and efficiently. You may also want to have a few student helpers (who you have already trained!) walking around the room. This part of the activity is a great way to assess following directions early on!

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Once the fortune tellers are made, kids should work with a partner and ask questions as they use their fortune tellers. Encourage students to take turns with using the fortune teller but also remember to allow lots of student conversations! This is the best time for kids to get to know each other, laugh, listen, and just feel part of the classroom community. You can choose whether to have students work with just one partner, or to go around the room and travel from partner to partner.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

Kids should also write down information they learn about their partner(s) on a worksheet. This is helpful so that at the end of the lesson, different students can share out interesting things they’ve learned about their peers.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

If you love the idea of this Getting to Know You Fortune Teller activity, give it a try this back to school season! It includes 4 lists of over 130 questions for kids, a blank fortune teller, 16 pre-made fortune tellers, and many student response sheets. An educator guide with steps to take before and during the lesson, detailed student directions with photos, and student directions posters during the lesson are also included to keep everyone on track. Whether you are a regular educator, special educator, counselor, or other specialist, this craft will help your kids get to know each other and build the positive community every classroom needs.

Getting to Know You Fortune Teller

 

 

 

Filed Under: Back to School, Seasonal Tagged With: back to school, education, hands on learning, lesson plans, teacher activities

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