Executive Functioning Skills Workbook for Middle & High School Students
For the student who freezes at a big project, loses assignments or melts down when plans change, this 50-page workbook teaches executive function skills directly, in an encouraging voice written to students.
What's Inside
- Core skills explained: working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control, using comparisons like an airport control tower and a CEO
- Task strategies: breaking large tasks into chunks and backward planning from a deadline
- Prioritizing and focus: the Eisenhower Matrix, study blocks, the Pomodoro technique and visual timers
- Reminder systems: how to set up reminders that work
- Checklists: ready-to-use checklists for essays, math and science work
- Built-in practice: an activity or fill-in worksheet in every section
How It Helps You
- Goes straight to strategies students can use the same day
- No extra prep: activities are already built in
- Frames executive function as skills to build, not something students lack
Ways to Use It
Use it in a study skills class, advisory period, counseling group or resource room, or send it home for independent practice. It works on its own or alongside an existing curriculum.
Who It's For
Middle and high school students, including students with ADHD or executive functioning challenges; strong independent readers in upper elementary can use it too.
Format
PDF (print or share digitally) and PPTX. 50 pages. Instant download.
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