Executive Functioning Skills Perseverance Lesson & Activities for Teens

Improve, support, and educate your students' about perseverance as an executive functioning skill with this digital, no prep, interactive lesson and activities that include two teaching videos, strategies, tools, and apps to use to help learn how to improve their perseverance. This digital mini-lesson and activity is perfect for high school or middle school students that need explicit instruction on perseverance and includes explanations on what perseverance is, and how the process works. The lesson includes practice scenarios and the ability to apply the skill to their own life. Whether you teach general education, special education, are a speech language pathologist or other support professional this resource is what your students need! Works for in person or online learning! Can be done digitally or on paper.

The following lesson is part of my executive functioning skills lesson series.

What are executive functioning skills?

Executive functioning skills are the skills you need to be a successful person. These skills involve: planning, prioritizing, time management, working memory, self-control, metacognition, attention, task initiation, and perseverance.

Students who struggle in school often have weak executive functioning skills. In order to be successful in school and in life, students who struggle need to be taught these skills explicitly. I have created an entire course and curriculum at my school based on this premise, and have students to this day come back and tell me that the “real world skills” they learned in my class, help them as adults. (Over 90% graduation rate for students who take my class)

INCLUDED:

36 Google Slides: (can also be printed and done on paper)

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 12 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 4 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions/Additional Resources
• 32 slides for students:
• 3 Slides to Define: Persistence, Perseverance, Why is it important?
• 5 Slides of Perseverance Explanations
• 2 Slides Brainstorm a Time You Persevered
• 1 Slide Types of Perseverance
• 1 Slide of Perseverance Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
• 1 Slide of ‘I Gave Up’ and Why
• 1 Slide to Identify Perseverance Strategies to Use
• 1 Slide of Directions WITH video
• 1 Example Slide
• 4 Practice Scenarios to Identify Perseverance Strategies
• 1 Slide of the Perseverance Process (can be printed as an anchor chart)
• 3 Real Life Application Process Slides
• 3 Reflection Slides
• Explicit Directions that can be adjusted based on your students’ abilities

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Amazing resource! Used it for a PRIDE lesson at my school to teach about Perseverance. This did a great job of distinguishing the definition in a way even the staff didn't think of. Grade 9

HOW TO USE:

Please see the slides for directions and teaching video on how to use with students.

NOTES FOR USE:

- I would NOT use this entire slide deck in one sitting, it is a lot to absorb.

- I would break it into two days 

Check out my Executive Functioning Skills Lessons

→ BUNDLE 1 (Planning/Prioritizing, Time Management/Task Initiation, & Organization)

→ BUNDLE 2 (Self-Control/Self-Regulation, Attention, & Working Memory)

Individual Lessons:

• Problem Solving Process
• Planning/Prioritizing
• Time management/Task initiation
• Organization
• Working memory
• Self-control/Self-Regulation
• Attention
  

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