Teach Executive Function Skills with Help from Effective Students
Teaching time management, organizational skills, and study skills, is a challenging task when you are inundated with state-based test scores and performance goals from your administration. Implementing the Effective Student™ course into your classroom and curriculum can help.
Executive Functioning Lesson Plans for Teachers
Educators love Effective Students because we make it easier to teach executive function content and time management skills by helping your students better self-manage their academics. With assistance from our executive functioning training program for teachers, in as little as 15 minutes each week, your students can overcome learning difficulties and develop the executive function skills they need to succeed in Elementary School and High School.
Executive Function Lessons You can Use Today
Why a Structured Curriculum?
Without clear goals and objectives, it’s nearly impossible for educators to measure student progress. The Effective Student Curriculum is a program for educators (content and study skills teachers) to teach and coach academic management skills with embedded tools to measure student outcomes. The curriculum includes six units of instruction:
Introduction to Executive
Functions Instructional Guide 1.0
Students with an understanding of executive function skill development become partners in the learning process. The Introduction to Executive Functions includes lesson plans, vocabulary building exercises and initial self evaluations for simplified instruction.
Organization
Complete Instructional
Guide 2.0
Students cannot study what they cannot find. Key principles of organization will expedite instruction, reduce anxiety and teach students the disciplinary steps to self management both with hard copy materials and online.
Time Management
Complete Instructional
Guide 3.0
Understanding time and planning ahead are key to student success. The Time Management Complete Instructional Guide includes 42 pages of instructional resources teaching students to plan ahead in a steps by step manner.
Study Skills
Complete Instructional
Guide 4.0
Enhance student academic success with the 4.0 Study Skills Unit, a comprehensive toolkit designed to empower students with the skills they need to study smarter, not harder. Whether it’s mastering note-taking, managing projects, or improving retention, this unit offers resources to foster effective study habits and skills.
Test Analysis
Complete Instructional
Guide 5.0
How do students learn from mistakes? With the Test Analysis Complete Instructional Guide, students learn there are only three reasons why they erred on a test question. Walk them through an errorless analysis to improve their study activities and test taking.
Moving Forward
Complete Instructional
Guide 6.0
Fostering independence with proven study skills is key to long term success. Avoid the pitfalls of prompt dependent learners with this toolkit of standards, progress reports, task analyses and self assessment tools for continual improvement. Learning doesn’t stop when instruction is over, it is built through structured practice.
Executive Function Materials for the Effective Student
Stay organized, focused, and ahead of the game with our ultimate Student Planner and tab sets — your all-in-one tool for academic success! Designed with students in mind, the Effective Students Planner helps easily track assignments, manage time, set goals, and stay on top of your busy schedule. Clean layouts, forecasting step by steps, space for notes, to-do lists, and exam countdowns, it’s more than just a planner — it’s a personal roadmap to stress-free productivity. Whether juggling classes, extracurriculars, or study sessions, these planners and tabs are a student’s secret weapon for staying in control and reducing anxiety.
Try Our Free Time Management Lesson Plan for Educators
The My Available Time lesson plan by Effective Students makes teaching time management skills practical. The lesson can be completed in 15-20 minutes in the classroom or as homework and lead to favorable time management for students in the long term.
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How can these resources help my learning community?
- short engaging lessons
- evidenced based with measurable criteria
- student centric
- metacognitive exercises increasing student engagement
- supportive of SEL state standards
- multi-sensory activities
- time management exercises supporting responsible decision making
- parent resources for wrap-around support
The overall goal is to help students achieve success with academic content. (per page 5 of the manual). I have to add that the goal is broader and deeper than helping students and the success being purely academic. The students are people – future parents and business owners, and the success might manifest itself in academics right now, but we are helping to train habits of self-discipline that will allow these people to be successful in life. One never outgrows the need for good organization, good time management; nor the need to know oneself or to know what activities are effective for learning and how to self evaluate for equal or greater success in the future.
Instructor Course & Curriculum for the Effective Student
Learn about Executive Functioning skills and how to build them within students
One year of access to the Effective Student Instructor Course
Educator Workshop
- Four live training sessions and orientation to curriculum resources.
- Icebreakers for students, how to engage parents, and sharing with coworkers how the Effective Student Method™ will support their teaching efforts.
- Reaching the challenging learner, the role of anxiety and value of routine.
- Review of pacing guides and planning for school year for content and/or study skills teachers.
One year of access to the Effective Student Curriculum
- Comprehensive instructional resources addressing the executive function skills needed to be a successful student.
- Includes exercises to build to academic management skills and executive functions soft skills.
- Why these skills are important and how to deliver instruction in only 15 minutes per week
- Instructional videos and exercises for teachers & coaches.
- Instructional videos for use with students.
- Teaching resources for each unit including lesson overviews, lesson plans, slide decks for instructions student workbooks with exercises, grading rubrics, pacing guides specific to study skills and content level classes.
- Student materials for each unit.
- Parent handouts for each unit.
- Measurable skills for students to build on year after year.
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