Executive Functioning Skills Part One: Test #1

What are executive functioning skills?

• The skills you use to become an executive.

• The skills your brain uses to help you accomplish your goals.

• The skills that help you function.

• The skills that make you the GOAT!

Why should you learn executive functioning skills?

• Strengthening your executive functioning skills can help make your life easier!

• Strengthening your executive functioning skills can help make your life harder!

• Having executive functioning skills can help make you successful at school and at work.

• Having executive functioning skills can help you pass your classes at school.

Executive functioning skills that you will learn include planning, organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, metacognition, self-control, attention, flexibility, and ________.

• participation

• perseverance

• disorder

• self-aware

Which of the following executive functioning skills have we NOT learned about so far?

• Planning

• Organization

• Attention

• Time Management

Planning involves determining a task or goal and then determining the _______ to get there.

• plan

• steps

• road

• best way

Good planners can prioritize tasks, manage their time well, and work most efficiently.

• True

• False

What is one of the BEST ways to plan your day?

• not to plan at all

• plan only for half of each day

• getting into a routine

• plan a week at a time

Our goals need to be S.M.A.R.T! What does the S in this acronym stand for?

• specific

• smart

• special

• socially acceptable

Our goals need to be S.M.A.R.T! What does the M in this acronym stand for?

• money

• motivated

• mostly

• measurable

Organization is setting up a system to keep your _______ neat and orderly.

• day

• mind

• life

• materials