Executive Functioning Skills Attention Lesson & Activities for Teens

Support your students' attention and focus executive functioning skills with this digital, no prep, interactive lesson and activities that include two teaching videos, strategies, tools, and apps to use to help learn how to pay better attention. This digital mini-lesson and activity is perfect for high school or middle school students that need explicit instruction on attention skills and includes explanations on how attention works, with a linked video activity and a check for understanding. The lesson uses a filter to compare the brain to intaking information as well as practice scenarios and the ability to apply the skill to their own life. Whether you teach general education, special education, are a speech language pathologist or other support professional this resource is what your students need! Works for in person or online learning! Can be done digitally or on paper.

The following is lesson is part of my executive functioning skills lesson series.

What are executive functioning skills?

Executive functioning skills are the skills you need to be a successful person. These skills involve: planning, prioritizing, time management, working memory, self-control, metacognition, attention, task initiation, and perseverance.

Students who struggle in school often have weak executive functioning skills. In order to be successful in school and in life, students who struggle need to be taught these skills explicitly. I have created an entire course and curriculum at my school based on this premise, and have students to this day come back and tell me that the “real world skills” they learned in my class, help them as adults. (Over 90% graduation rate for students who take my class)

INCLUDED:

37 Google Slides: (can also be printed and done on paper)

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 10 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 3 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions
• 1 Video of my OWN Take a Break Corner
• 32 slides for students:
• 3 Slides to Define: Attention, What Does it Mean to Pay Attention & Why is it Important?
• 2 Slides Explaining Attention is like a Filter and it is a Process not a single skill
• 1 Slide of Attention Video Task
• 1 Check for Understanding of the Video Slide
• 1 Slide of Attention Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
• 1 Slide to Explain
• 1 Slide to Have Students Identify their Distractions
• 1 Slide to Identify Attention Strategies
• 1 Slide Explaining the 4 Types of Attention
• 1 Example Slide
• 5 Practice Scenarios to Identify the Distractor & Ways to Focus
• 1 Slide of the Attention Process (can be printed as an anchor chart)
• 3 Real Life Application Process Slides
• 3 Reflection Slides
• Explicit Directions that can be adjusted based on your students’ abilities

HOW TO USE:

Please see the slides for directions and teaching video on how to use with students.

NOTES FOR USE:

- I would NOT use this entire slides in one sitting, it is a lot to absorb.

- I would break it into two days 

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐" Extremely engaging lesson to work on executive functioning skills - especially virtually!" Grades 9 & 10

Check out my Executive Functioning Skills Lessons

→ BUNDLE 1 (Planning/Prioritizing, Time Management/Task Initiation, & Organization)

→ BUNDLE 2 (Self-Control/Self-Regulation, Attention, & Working Memory)

Individual Lessons:

• Problem Solving Process
• Planning/Prioritizing
• Time management/Task initiation
• Organization
• Working memory
• Self-control/Self-Regulation
• Attention
• Perseverance
  

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