Kids with weak executive functioning skills need strong external cues.  Visual cues are the best option for these kids because they cannot visual what they are told.  Make a visual schedule of your routine.  You can break it up by activity, by subject, by topic, or anyway you want.  Even kids in middle and high school benefit from visual schedules showing what they should be doing.  Make sure you can adjust it and show what has already been done.  Need help?  Ask your school SLP or reach out to me!

Kids with weak executive functioning skills struggle to visual things.  Create visuals to help them.  This can range from a picture of a clean centers to a picture of a finished project.  You can take a picture of your class lined up correctly to hang by the door, pictures of finished posters to show what you want, etc.  This will not only help your students visual the end product but helps you guide them.  "Does this center look like that picture?  Does our line look like the picture?"  These open-ended questions help your students develop problem solving skills and helps you stop nagging them!  

Help you and your students easily get ready for class.  This works for all grade levels - elementary through high school.  Decide what color your class (or the subject is).  Green for science, Red for Math, etc.  That way at the beginning of the class (or subject time) you can glance around and see any student that isn't ready (blue notebook out when everyone else has out green).  This will help your students learn planning and organizing skills.  

Help your students learn to pause and reflect, to think about what happened.  This will help with so many executive functioning skills.  Do very simple things, such as thumb up or thumb down.  "How did we line up today? Thumb up or thumb down?" and then choose a student or two - why did you give it a thumbs up?  Why did you give it a thumb down?  Some students may struggle with this at first, but throughout the school year it will get easier.  

Ask your students why!  This question creates an opportunity for kids to pause and think - which helps with many executive function skills.  Why questions are the hardest type of question to answer.  They require a high level of thought and reasoning.  So ask kids why - why did you choose that topic?  why do you decide to play ball at recess?  Why is math your favorite subject?  Why? Why? Why?