E.F. Skill Definitions (1)
The ability to develop and maintain a system to keep things neat and orderly (such as a schedule or your materials).
What is Organization?
This verb means to figure and lay out HOW to accomplish a goal, journey, or project before you start it.
What is Planning?
Using this alternative to a keyboard is preferable to a pen because you can erase your work when needed.
What is a pencil?
This is the term for a visual chart that shows dates, times, or seasons.
Using this type of device to set alarms or reminders is a great tool because almost everyone owns one.
What is a SmartPhone / iPhone or cell phone?
This management skill involves 1) knowing how long a task will take 2) setting aside the correct amount of time to do the task, and 3) Using that time well so you get the task done on time.
What is Time Management?
The ability to adapt to new situations quickly, and deal with those changes well.
What is Flexibility?
A type of tool, found on a phone or IRL, that can help us manage our time by counting down. (Hint: not a clock, but some desktop versions look like one.)
What is a timer?
The term for the order in which a series of dates, times, or events occurs.
What is a schedule?
This suite of programs is the one most commonly used by Newton South.
What is Google Suite?
This term refers to the mental ability to hold information in our minds WHILE we work to complete a task or situation.
What is Working Memory?
This is the official term for to being able to start or begin a task by yourself, when you need to start it.
What is Task Initiation?
This type of marker helps us see important phrases more quickly, and can be especially helpful in figuring out the main idea in large chunks of text.
What is a highlighter?
What is "A Wrinkle in Time"?
The term for the types of time-management programs that are small, mostly cost between FREE and $9.99, and claim to help you improve your Executive Function skills.
What are iPhone or iPad apps? (applications)?
This term refers to regulating your thoughts, actions, and emotions. (For example, Ms. Wendth seems not to have much of this when she is around fancy cheeses.)
What is Self-Control?
The ability to focus on a person, task, or situation for the appropriate amount of time, and shifting that focus to a new task when needed. (Hint: we often can do this much better when we find the task to be fun.)
What is Attention?
This type of worksheet helps visual learners break down our thoughts, tasks, or homework into visual steps or chunks.
What is a graphic organizer?
Two famous songs share this title: one was made popular by the 1980s classic romance, "Dirty Dancing"; the other was released by Pitbull and Ne-Yo in 2014.
What is "The Time of our Lives"?
This type of electronic document allows you to color-code specific information, edit it, or even write directly onto it without having to print it out.
What is a PDF?
This is the ability to stick with a task, project, or situation without giving up (even when it's hard or boring).
What is perseverance?
This term literally means "Beyond Knowledge." It refers to being aware of what you know, and using that info about yourself to help you plan, complete, and learn tasks.
What is Meta Cognition?
This paper-based time-management tool is often much more successful for students with Executive Function challenges because writing things down helps us to remember them.
What is a Planner? (Or notebook, etc.)
This film, produced by George Harrison and directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam, is about a young boy who accidentally joins a group of time-traveling drarves.
What is "Time Bandits"?
What does P.D.F. stand for?
What is Portable Document Format?