Executive functioning encompasses many skills including planning, organizing, sustaining attention, and regulating behaviors and emotions. Deficits in this area can cause students to have difficulties with planning ahead, following directions, organizing a team/work/etc., managing time, solving problems, etc. Recognizing these deficits, intervening, and accommodating are crucial for student academic success.
Goal Plan Do: a planning ahead and self-check worksheet
Rubber Band Intervention: Use to decrease undesired behavior
Explicitly teach highlighting and note-taking skills
Token Board: Use for completing steps of an assignment, multiple assignments, multiple tasks, etc. for the student to earn rewards
Check-In/Check-Out: Setting goals with students and giving a behavior report card
Breaking the Attention Seeking Habit: The Power of Positive Random Teacher Attention
Example: Behavior Contract: set individual or group goals with defined goals and consequences
Whole Group Data for Individual Student Goal Attainment
Allows you to set goals for individual students or groups of students and track whether or not they met the goal each day
Group Progress Monitoring Form (M. Searle based)
This form can be used for either non-academic or academic goals for small groups
Individual Progress Monitoring Form
This form can be used for either non-academic or academic goals for an individual student
Behavior Frequency Count Data Sheet
Use when the goal is to increase the frequency of positive behavior or decrease the frequency of negative behavior (e.g., increasing turning in work, decreasing calling out, etc.)
Whole group or individual student
Use when the goal is to increase or decrease the duration of a behavior (e.g., increase time working, decrease the length of tantrums, etc.)
Whole group or individual student
Use when the goal is to increase compliance (i.e., how long between teacher request and student compliance- the goal is to decrease the time between)
Whole group or individual student
Repeat Offenders Rule Violation Tracking Sheet
Allows you to use your classroom management plan (rules, consequences, rewards) to monitor multiple students who repeatedly break rules
Intervention, Tracking, and Parent Communication in One!
Establishes how the student will earn the appropriate check mark or graphic and how many they should earn in a day/week to earn a reward
Individual student
Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence Log
Can help to better understand what is causing the behavior and what the student is getting out of the behavior
Individual student
Tracks time/date, triggers, behaviors, and consequences
Give student reminders of how much time they have left to complete assignments at regular intervals
Break larger tasks down into smaller more manageable tasks
When working on big projects, break the project into smaller increments and give due dates
Teach the student to utilize a planner, check their planner daily, and ask parents to sign the planner
Maintain good communication with parents!!!
Use visual timers
Realize the student is not being forgetful on purpose!