Strong executive functioning skills are the foundation for student success, helping them stay organized, adapt to challenges, and follow through on tasks. But before students can strengthen these skills, they need to understand where they currently stand.
Our Executive Functioning Skills Checklist is designed to increase self-awareness and spark conversations about strengths and areas for growth. With categories covering Academic Management Skills and Social-Emotional Skills, this checklist helps students and educators identify key focus areas like organization, task initiation, emotional control, and goal-directed persistence.
If this checklist is helpful, explore the Effective Student Course or Instructor Curriculum to build these essential skills and set students up for long-term success.
Founded in 2015 by a fellow parent, Rachael Barron, Effective Students specifically targets the skills students need to address academic and personal demands successfully. Students often 'hold it together' at school but when they come home to complete homework or study, parents see up close the difficulties students encounter when trying to follow through.
If you're tired of reminding students what is coming up or how they need to prioritize, use this free exercise to start them on a path to independence. https://effectivestudents.com/faqs-about-executive-functioning/
Executive Functions are the leading indicator of long term success. Effective Students was started to help students develop confidence and competence with it comes to academic management skills, one component of executive functioning skills. We observed that bright students often do not thrive because managing tasks like organization, time management and how to study interfere with their success. We change that so students can thrive.
Executive Function skills are a key indicator of long term student success. To help students and teachers prepare for next year, Effective Students offers summer programming to help students get ahead.
Teaching time management, organizational skills, and study skills, is challenging when you are inundated with state-based test scores. Implementing the Effective Studentâ„¢ course into your classroom and curriculum can help.