Supporting students who have difficulty with executive functioning skills is an often overlooked area of providing preventive intervention and support. Executive functioning refers to the mental processes that help us connect our past experience with action now. We use executive function skills when we perform such activities as planning, organizing, strategizing, and paying attention to and remembering details.1 We count on our executive functioning skills every day to plan, set goals, and self-regulate our behavior, so difficulty with executive functioning can lead to many of the problems that students with challenging behavior commonly exhibit. Abilities that are linked to executive functioning include.2
- Making plans
- Keeping track of time
- Keeping track of more than one thing at a time
- Meaningfully including past knowledge in discussions
- Engaging in group dynamics
- Evaluating ideas
- Reflecting on work
- Changing our mind and making midcourse corrections while thinking, reading, and writing
- Finishing work on time
- Asking for help
- Waiting to speak until called on
- Seeking more information when we need it
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