After collecting, reviewing, and reporting on Executive Function sources, I am reposting summaries of work from the last 3 months (January to March, 2021) that focuses on Executive Function skills.
Instructional
Ideas for Goal
Setting/Planning/Initiating
Note:
These sources are classroom oriented, but can be individualized or
personalized! This is the final week postings of a year-long series on teaching
children (K-12) Executive Function skills from the following source:
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom, Lynn Meltzer
Executive Function in the Classroom, Christopher Kaufman, Ph.D.
Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom, Joyce Cooper-Kahn and
Margaret Foster
The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie
Saxton Sharpe
Meltzer
*Understanding the Big
Picture
*Valuing the Task
*Setting Proximal,
Specific and Appropriately Challenging Goals
^Prioritizing Tasks: Obligation, Aspiration,
Negotiation
Cooper-Kahn and Foster (Classroom Culture, PLANNING, Routines,
Classroom Design)
*Planning Assignments with
Students’ Executive Load in Mind
*Managing Time Frames with
Executive Functioning I Mind
*Strategy Training
Strosnider and Sharpe
(Planning within the Prioritizing, Organizing, Sequencing, Managing
Time, Planning cluster)
*Planners
*Backward Mapping Strategy
(across a month-long time frame)
*Checklist Strategy Card
*Visual Schedule
Kaufman did not have any specific
suggestions for this/these skills.
