Time management, organization, planning, paying attention, problem-solving, initiating and completing tasks, managing emotions – executive functioning is responsible for these essential skills for life. However, these skills don’t come naturally for everyone.

Perhaps you have a student who is often late and unprepared for class, who has difficulty with organizing his/her thoughts when writing an essay or struggles with paying attention in class. Maybe you have a student who gets easily frustrated and can’t go a day without having an emotional meltdown. Outlined here are seven practical tools to help students develop and strengthen their executive function skills in your classroom.

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Seven Tools for Executive Function