Executive Funtioning Skills 4 Education

According to Leslie Packer, PhD: Executive functioning is a central process most involved in giving organization and order to our actions and behavior and involve: 

 Planning for the future and strategic thinking

Inhibiting or delaying responding

 Initiating behavior and shifting between activities

Self-regulating skills that we use every day in order to get any task done.  

Analyze

 Planning 

   Organizing 

   Scheduling 

           Completing tasks

 

                                    Pneumonic Strategies help guide students: 

“I LAUGH” – Michelle Garcia Winner,M.A.                        STOP - Sarah Ward, M.S.

I= Initiation                                                                                  S= Space

L= Listening with eyes and brain                                             T= Time

A= Abstract and Inferential thinking                                        O= Objects

U= Understanding Perspective                                                P= People

G= Gestalt Processing 

H= Humor/Human Relatedness

 

TIME BLINDNESS IS COMMON

This involves knowing what time it is now, how much time is left, and how quickly time is passing. Students who tend to be "time blind," aren't aware of the passing of time. As a result, they often struggle to use time effectively. Visual Timers and applications like 30/30 can help!

Get Ready Do Done is a system used to help students start with the end in mind. 

Click on the below links to learn how to set up a "Get Ready Do Done":

https://www.fasdoutreach.ca/resources/all/g/get-ready-do-done

https://peaceigive.com/tag/get-ready-do-done/