EF Skill
This skill helps you keep papers, supplies, and assignments in the right place.
Answer: What is organization and prioritization?
A student’s backpack is full of loose papers and they cannot find yesterday’s homework.
Answer: What is organization?
Name one strategy for staying organized.
Answer: Folder system, clean backpack day, checklist, labeled binder, planner.
A student forgets their charger and also cannot find their homework.
Answer: What are working memory and organization?
Act out someone struggling with organization.
Answer: Must show messy materials/lost assignment.
The skill that helps you identify and correct personal errors
Answer: What is self monitoring?
A student says, “I’ll start in five minutes,” but never begins.
Answer: What is task initiation?
Name one strategy for starting homework.
Answer: Five-minute rule, timer, start with easiest part, remove phone.
A student procrastinates because the assignment feels hard.
Answer: What are task initiation and emotional control?
Act out someone using working memory strategies.
Answer: Must show writing directions/checklist/repeating steps.
This skill helps you remember directions long enough to use them.
Answer: What is working memory?
A teacher gives three directions, but the student only remembers the first one.
Answer: What is working memory?
Name one strategy for remembering directions.
Answer: Write them down, repeat them, ask teacher to clarify, use checklist.
A student starts the easiest assignment first even though another one is due tomorrow.
Answer: What are Organizing and prioritizing and self monitoring?
You have:
As a team, decide what you would do first and explain why.
This skill helps you identify short-term and long-term goals
Answer: What is goal setting?
A student gets one bad grade and says, “I’m terrible at school.”
Answer: What is emotional control?
Name one strategy for calming down when frustrated.
Answer: Deep breath, short break, positive self-talk, ask for help.
A student panics during a test and forgets everything they studied.
Answer: What is cognitive flexibility and working memory?
What does ISEE stand for?
Explain each one
Individualized
Systematic
Effecient
Effective
This skill helps you adjust when plans change.
Answer: What is cognitive flexibility?
Flexible thinking?
A teacher changes the due date and the student gets stuck because their plan changed.
Answer: What is flexible thinking?
Name one strategy for prioritizing three assignments.
Answer: Rank by due date, difficulty, points, or time needed.
A student refuses to change their plan after a teacher moves a deadline.
Answer: What are (cognitive flexibility) flexible thinking and goal setting?
Your team has 30 seconds: name as many EF skills as you can.
Answer: Organization, planning, prioritizing, time management, task initiation, working memory, emotional control, flexible thinking, self-monitoring.