Doodle Time! Draw a Bird...
Then, check out the chart below. How many executive function skills did you use to doodle that bird?
This tool supports students in focusing on one specific behavioral goal, and raises their awareness of their progress toward it.
This tool helps students plan in advance how they will respond to different challenges that may arise.
This tool fosters persistence in students by identifying some of the feelings they may encounter when working and anticipating their response.
This tool supports students in tracking and monitoring their own progress toward learning targets, helping students to be self-aware of their strengths and goals.
Creating mental models, considering multiple sides to a situation, seeing cause-and-effect relationships, making hypotheses, and more are skills of executive function that are foundational to good decision-making skills. Explore the graphic organizers available on 4thekids.idecorp.com to see what you may want to use with your students. For example, this graphic organizer is a tool you can use to build students' awareness of differing perspectives upon the same idea or event.
The organizational skills they will develop are valuable, and the structure will support productivity as they decide when they will complete all responsibilities across the day. This tool will help you to get started.
Protocols for discussion provide structure that supports students in engaging effectively. This tool will help you in planning protocols for rich discussion.
This graphic organizer can support students in being accountable for bringing accurate knowledge and information to the learning community.