Executive Functioning Skills Digital Bundle 2 of Lessons & Activities for Teens

Do your students have an executive functioning skills deficit in self-control, self-regulation, attention and working memory? Help improve executive functioning for your high school or middle school students with this digital no prep lesson bundle, that includes three interactive lessons and activities with 8 teaching videos.

Provide your students explicit instruction on these skills with strategies, tools, and apps students can use as well as practice scenarios and the ability to apply the skill to their own life. All lessons liken the brain skill to a concrete example for easy understanding for students. Example: working memory is your brain's version of a sticky note.

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 is a bundle of THREE lessons in my executive functioning skills series. (This is bundle two, bundle one can be found here)

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: Three COMPLETE No Prep Lesson & Activities for Teens

Self-Regulation & Self Control

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

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 14 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 3 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions
• 2 Slides of Additional Resources & A Video of my OWN Take a Break Corner
• 36 slides for students:
  • 3 Slides to Define: Self-Regulation, Self-Control & Why is it Important?
  • 2 Slides Explaining the Link Between Self-Regulation and Self-Control
  • 1 Slide of Brain Science Explanation with Linked Videos
  • 1 Check for Understanding of the Video Slide
  • 1 Slide of Self-Regulation Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
  • 1 Slide to Explain the Boiling Pot Model
  • 1 Slide to Have Students Identify their “Boiling Over” Signs
  • 1 Slide to Identify Calm Down Strategies when they might “Boil Over”
  • 1 Slide Explaining the 3 Types of Self-Control
  • 1 Slide of Self-Control Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
  • 1 Example Slide
  • 3 Practice Scenarios to Identify the Emotion & Ways to Self-Regulate
  • 1 Slide of the Self-Regulation 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

Attention

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

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 10 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 3 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions
• 1 Video of my OWN Take a Break Corner
• 32 slides for students:
  • 3 Slides to Define: Attention, What Does it Mean to Pay Attention & Why is it Important?
  • 2 Slides Explaining Attention is like a Filter and it is a Process not a single skill
  • 1 Slide of Attention Video Task
  • 1 Check for Understanding of the Video Slide
  • 1 Slide of Attention Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
  • 1 Slide to Explain
  • 1 Slide to Have Students Identify their Distractions
  • 1 Slide to Identify Attention Strategies
  • 1 Slide Explaining the 4 Types of Attention
  • 1 Example Slide
  • 5 Practice Scenarios to Identify the Distractor & Ways to Focus
  • 1 Slide of the Attention 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

Working Memory

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

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 9 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 2 Videos to ‘test’ students working memory - 1 Visual, 1 Auditory 
• 3 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions
• 1 Video of my OWN Take a Break Corner (examples of fidgets included)
• 40 slides for students:
  • 3 Slides to Define: Memory, Working Memory, Why is it important?
  • 2 Slides Explaining Working Memory like a sticky note/cognitive workspace
  • 2 Slides of Working Memory Tests
  • 2 Slides of Answer Keys to the Working Memory Test
  • 1 Slide of Working Memory Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
  • 1 Slide of Working Memory Strategies when you can’t write it down
  • 1 Slide to Explain
  • 1 Slide to Have Students Identify What thet Forget
  • 1 Slide to Identify Working Memory Strategies
  • 1 Slide of Directions WITH video
  • 1 Example Slide
  • 5 Practice Scenarios to Identify Working Memory Strategies
  • 1 Slide of the Working Memory 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

HOW TO USE:
- Teach one skill a week

- Please see the individual lesson slides for directions and teaching videos on how to use with students.

NOTES FOR USE:
- I would ONLY teach one skill per week, not all the skills in one week!
(This is why it says the duration is three weeks)
- Each of these lessons took my students longer than 45 minutes, due to their ability level. (I used almost two full class periods)

- I have used this lesson for 9, 10, and 11th grade as well as my post grad students

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
• Perseverance
  

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