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Dan Siegel provides some wonderful information about understanding how our brain works. In thinking about a "schedule" the information about having a healthy, "Mind Platter" has guided me in creating a healthy balance for my family.
After reading through the categories, what speaks to you? For my family, the following categories, made a little more sense to us when we sat down and discussed it together. Here is the categories we've decided to focus on:
Sleep time (consistent times for week and weekend)
Exercise (walking, riding bikes, yoga, running, on-line exercise videos, dance party)
Academic Time (school work)
Creative Time (drawing, singing, dancing, journaling, crafts, sewing, gardening)
Hang-out time (Zoom, Google Hangouts, call a family member or friend, pets, games, technology, etc.)
Mealtime: this is our family's connecting time. I had gotten a little lazy over Spring Break and extended break. As mealtimes snuck later and later in the day, it had an overall impact on our entire schedule.
Chore-time: (whatever works for your family to keep it all going in the right direction)
How do I support Executive Functioning with at home learning?
How do I support Executive Functioning with at home learning?
Peg Dawson who wrote, Smart but Scattered, is one of the foremost authors on Executive Functioning Skills. At her website, you can find Tips for Caregivers and Parents on Schooling at Home: What Role Do Executive Skills Play? Scroll down to the appendixes to find some recommended schedules from extremely simple to more complex. It is a great resource to help brainstorm some different ideas and approaches.
"Executive skills are frontal lobe functions that begin to emerge shortly after birth but take 25 years or longer to fully mature. It's helpful to think about them in two groups: Foundational Skills that develop earlier and more Advanced Skills, that develop later (and that often incorporate the earlier developing Foundational Skills)."
Foundational Skills:
Response Inhibition or Impulse Control
Working Memory
Emotional Control
Flexibility
Sustained Attention
Task Initiation
Advanced Executive Skills:
Organization
Planning/Prioritization
Time Management
Goal Directed Persistence
Metacognition
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