Executive functioning skills can be very complex and teaching these skills can be even more complex. It is really helpful to have a well developed scope and sequence plan when you are teaching executive functioning skills. In this episode I walk you through my scope and sequence for teaching executive functioning skills across all of the grade levels. In lesson one I introduce the concept of executive functioning skills and play a game with the students. I really like playing memory with the students and they learn so much about the basic concepts related to executive functioning and they don't even know they are learning them. In lesson two I focus on teaching students how to break down a big task into macro and micro to do lists. This lesson focuses on breaking things down and targets task initiation and completion. It can be really overwhelming for students to have to break down a complex task into smaller pieces and when students are overwhelmed they often avoid those tasks. This lesson helps build these skills explicitly so we can increase the success of our students. I start off the lesson with a fun game where we all have to build something together and then we relate that concept back to an academic task. With each of these activities, the students are practicing breaking down the big pieces of the task into smaller pieces and we are reviewing this skill throughout the week. In lesson three I teach students how to estimate the time related to finishing a task. This can help students with foundational time management skills that are vital to task initiation and completion as well. In this lesson we estimate how long it is going to take us to learn a short dance as a class (throwing in some social skills and teamwork as well there) and then we relate it back to academics. We practice estimating how long it is going to take us to do different aspects of the tasks so students get explicit practice with these skills and can better estimate how long academic tasks will take them. In lesson four I teach the students all about making a schedule. We put the previous two lessons together and work on breaking tasks down and estimating how long those tasks are going to take us so we can plan out our time. I once again use a fun activity like making slime or something along those lines and then have students help plan out our chunks of time throughout the day. You can never practice executive functioning skills too much. In the fifth lesson we focus on goal setting and making reasonable and attainable goals. We start with smaller goals and then make bigger goals so that students get practice with setting both types of goals. We tie in a lot of the skills we learned previously and continue to build on those skills. I have students plan out their week and set goals for what they would like to accomplish. During the last lesson in this sequence, we play a review game. This gives me a chance to determine if we need to review any concepts or if we are ready to move onto the next scope and sequence. This is a framework for how I teach executive functioning skills and all of the lessons can be adapted to different grade levels. Join the Teaching Behavior Together CommunityGrab a FREE behavior guide for feasible classroom based behavioral interventions (Click Here)Visit my website for more strategies and interventions you can use daily in your classroom. (Click Here)Follow me on Instagram for daily behavior and social emotional learning tips (Click Here)Follow me over on Pinterest for all things behavior and social emotional learning (Click