Executive Functioning Skills Working Memory Lesson & Activities for Teens

Support your students' working memory executive functioning skills with this digital, no prep, interactive lesson and activities that include two teaching videos, two video assessments, strategies, tools, and apps to use to help learn how to improve their working memory. This digital mini-lesson and activity is perfect for high school or middle school students that need explicit instruction on working memory skills and includes explanations on what working memory is, and how the process works. It also includes two working memory assessments, for auditory and visual working memory! The lesson uses a sticky note analogy 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:

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

• 2 Instructional Videos for Students to Watch - 9 minutes total
  (1 Video is Teaching the Skill, 1 Video Reviews Activity Directions & Examples)
• 2 Videos to ‘test’ students working memory - 1 Visual, 1 Auditory 
• 3 Slides of Teacher Directions/Suggestions
• 1 Video of my OWN Take a Break Corner (examples of fidgets included)
• 40 slides for students:
• 3 Slides to Define: Memory, Working Memory, Why is it important?
• 2 Slides Explaining Working Memory like a sticky note/cognitive workspace
• 2 Slides of Working Memory Tests
• 2 Slides of Answer Keys to the Working Memory Test
• 1 Slide of Working Memory Strategies/Tools/Apps to Use
• 1 Slide of Working Memory Strategies when you can’t write it down
• 1 Slide to Explain
• 1 Slide to Have Students Identify What thet Forget
• 1 Slide to Identify Working Memory Strategies
• 1 Slide of Directions WITH video
• 1 Example Slide
• 5 Practice Scenarios to Identify Working Memory Strategies
• 1 Slide of the Working Memory 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

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Great for working on memory!"

Grade: 9th & 10th - Primarily students with mild to severe disabilities, & learning difficulties

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Great resource for children who are a bit older - clear explanations"

⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I found this a helpful resource for my special ed students. Thank you!"

Grade: 9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th - Primarily students with with learning difficulties

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 slide deck in one sitting, it is a lot to absorb.

- I would break it into two days

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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