Time Management Activities for High School Students

Time Management Activities for High School Students

As a high school teacher, parent, or related service provider, you are undoubtedly well aware of the importance of time management skills for your students. There are so many effective time management activities for high school students that you can use in your classroom. These activities will help your students learn how to better manage […]

Executive Functioning Occupational Therapy

Executive functioning and occupational therapy interventions can help students succeed at school and home with planning, memory, and more!

Children with executive functioning deficits often have trouble with tasks that require planning, organization, and self-regulation. These skills are important for academic success and for everyday living. Executive functioning and occupational therapy interventions can help students develop the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. Awareness of executive functioning and its link […]

Executive Functioning IEP Goals

For special education students, it may be necessary to create executive functioning IEP goals. Read the examples in the post.

Executive functioning is a set of mental processes that help you gain control over your actions so you can achieve your goals. Executive function skills allow us to plan and organize our daily activities, time, and behaviors as well as change or shift between tasks. Executive functioning abilities are sometimes referred to as executive skills, […]

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Benefits of Recess and Executive Function Skills

Research shows us that there are many benefits to recess. It can even help with executive function skills.

Do your students have daily recess? Does your school promote longer recess periods? Research shows us that there are many benefits to recess. It can even help with executive function skills. Executive function skills include planning, organization, working memory, initiation, task monitoring, self-monitoring, inhibition, emotional control, and shifting/flexibility. Wow! Those are lot of super important […]

How To Take Organized Notes

Help Students Take Organized Notes

Do you work with students who need help taking organized notes?  Do you have students who struggle with working memory?  The Cornell Note Taking System can help you learn how to take organized notes. Students will not only take effective, organized notes, they can also study the material. The Cornell method was a system created by Walter […]

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Exercise and Working Memory in School Children

What to help your students with working memory? Researchers have explored the association between exercise and working memory and have found that aerobic fitness, muscle strength, and coordination are all associated with working memory. Working memory is an important skills for students for reading, writing, math, following directions, and more. This executive function skills is […]

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Sensory Processing and Executive Function Skills

Do you wonder if sensory processing and executive function skills are related? Is there an association between the two?

Do you wonder if sensory processing and executive function skills are related? Is there an association between the two? Sensory processing is receiving sensory input, organizing the input, and formulating a plan of action or response based on that input. Executive function skills include planning, organization, working memory, initiation, task monitoring, self-monitoring, inhibition, emotional control, […]

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Mindfulness and Executive Functioning

A research study took a close look at mindfulness and executive functioning. Mindfulness interventions may help students with their executive functioning skills.

Do you work with students who struggle with their executive functioning skills such as inhibition or emotional control? Mindfulness interventions may help students with their executive functioning skills. A research study took a closer look at mindfulness and executive functioning. What Are Executive Function Skills? Executive function skills include planning, organization, working memory, initiation, task […]

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Winter Fine Motor Activities and Executive Function Freebie

Fine Motor and Executive Function Skills with a Winter Theme from the Winter Skill Builders Packet Three Free Sample Pages

Winter Fine Motor Activities and Executive Function Skills Freebie Do you struggle to find the time to plan out therapy sessions?  These no-prep activities encourage Winter fine motor activities and executive function skills.  And… they are FREE!  The 3 black and white sample pages are super easy to print off and start working with students […]