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During testing, students must be able to set specific, measurable goals and monitor their progress towards achieving those goals. The following resources can support them in setting goals:
Executive Function: Planning and Goal Setting - This tool is intended for students identified as needing support in the area of planning and goal-setting
Goal-Setting and Reflection - Use this document to help students set goals during testing weeks.
Another essential executive function skill students need during testing is their ability to avoid distractions and push through challenges. The following resources can help them practice:
Focus Card - Use these cards to help students attend to a person or activity, focus, and concentrate.
If … Then Implementation Plans - Have students use this tool to create "If, Then" plans to stay on track for achieving short-term behavior goals.
Student Persistence Cards - Use these cards to promote concentration, reflection, progress monitoring, and grit.
Encouraging students to reflect on what study methods work best and identifying areas that need improvement (metacognition) helps them become self-aware. The following resources can help with metacognition:
Metacognitive Strategies - Use this tool to promote metacognition in students.
Future-Powered Kindergarten
Future-Powered Kindergarten
Review this post to learn more about the future of kindergarten and how to make sure it caters to the needs of Gen Alpha.
Executive Function
Executive Function
Watch this video to learn about the connection between executive function and the science of reading. Then explore the execuitve funciton resources below:
Use these cards to monitor student performance, set goals considering future consequences in light of current actions, and build many other subskills of executive function, including but not limited to “Cognitive Flexibility,” “Self-Awareness,” and “Planning.
Like a car dashboard, a learning dashboard offers students and teachers an up-to-date snapshot of progress. This sample dashboard lists discrete skills from curricular standards and allows the teacher or student to designate if a student is "Just Learning," "Practicing," or at the "I Got This!" stage.
This tool is intended to help students identify their executive function skills, track their progress over time, and recognize individual growth.
This tool is intended to help students identify their executive function skills, track their progress over time, and recognize individual growth
Read this article to learn more about how teaching metacognitive strategies to students can help them monitor their reading, which improves reading comprehension.
Metacognitive Strategies .pdfReview this resource to learn about different strategies to promote metacognition in students.
How Can I Leverage More Small Groups?
When you work with your students in small groups, you can pinpoint misconceptions and provide them with immediate and purposeful support and feedback. The question is: What about the students who are not in my small group? What are the rest of my students doing that is rigorous and purposeful?If you haven’t already done so, consider what we call the activity list. This is a structure with the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom™ that supports students in making academic choices within an instructional unit. Students are provided an activity list with instructional activities, directions, time limits, and more! Check out a few sample activity lists below.
In addition, this tool walks you through the steps to create a purposeful activity list.
Three Tools to Improve Student Behavior
Read this article to explore the connection between executive function and student behavior and learn about tools to promote executive function.
What Do I Do with All These Predictable Books?
What Do I Do with All These Predictable Books?
As you transition to using decodable texts to support students in their reading journey through guided reading and independent reading. Consider different ways to use your leveled readers. Review this guide to learn more.
Review this document to learn about strategies that support students with dyslexia.
Activities to Increase Multisensory Teaching Strategies.pdfRead this blog post to learn about the importance of Executive Function.
(Grades K-2)
In this unit, students construct a class book to get to know one another at the beginning of the year. Although intended for grade 1, it can be adapted for students in the primary grades.
(Grades 3-8)
Sharing personal stories is an important part of building a classroom community. In this unit, students engage in self-discovery and share their stories to inform and enlighten the classroom community. This unit can be used during the first week or two of school to engage stuents in co-creating a learning environment that fosters student responsibility for learning and respect for all individuals.
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