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Executive Functioning Wrap-Up: Your Super Skills!

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Lesson Plan

Executive Functioning Wrap-Up: Your Super Skills!

Students will reflect on their progress in flexibility, organization, and planning, and identify actionable strategies for continued application of these executive functioning skills in their daily lives.

Reflecting on learned strategies helps students internalize them and recognize their own growth, empowering them to confidently apply these essential life skills beyond the group sessions.

Audience

6th Grade Small Group

Time

45 minutes

Approach

Discussion, Reflection, Activity

Materials

Smartboard or Projector, Slide Deck: Your Super Skills!, Reflection Worksheet: My Super Skills Toolkit, and Pencils/Pens

Prep

Prepare Materials

10 minutes

Step 1

Warm-Up: Recall & Connect

5 minutes

  • Greet students and welcome them to the final session.
  • Project Slide 1.
  • Ask students to briefly share one thing they remember learning or practicing related to flexibility, organization, or planning over the past three weeks. (e.g., "I remember trying to be flexible when my friend changed our plan," or "I started using a checklist for my homework.")
  • Facilitate a quick whole-group share out.

Step 2

Reviewing Our Journey

10 minutes

  • Project Slide 2 and Slide 3 to briefly recap what flexibility is and why it's important.
  • Project Slide 4 to recap organization.
  • Project Slide 5 to recap planning.
  • Prompt students: "What was one challenge you faced with these skills, and how did you try to overcome it?" Allow for brief discussion.

Step 3

My Super Skills Toolkit (Individual Reflection)

15 minutes

  • Distribute the Reflection Worksheet: My Super Skills Toolkit.
  • Project Slide 6 and explain the worksheet.
  • Instruct students to individually complete the worksheet, thinking about specific examples of when they used flexibility, organization, or planning. Encourage them to be honest about areas they still want to work on.
  • Circulate to offer support and answer questions.

Step 4

Share and Celebrate

10 minutes

  • Project Slide 7.
  • Ask students to volunteer to share one insight or strategy they wrote down on their Reflection Worksheet: My Super Skills Toolkit.
  • Facilitate a brief discussion, emphasizing successes and growth.
  • Acknowledge and praise students for their hard work and progress throughout the three weeks.

Step 5

Cool-Down: Moving Forward

5 minutes

  • Project Slide 8.
  • Ask students: "What is one 'super skill' you'll commit to using this week?"
  • Collect the Reflection Worksheet: My Super Skills Toolkit as an exit ticket.
  • Thank students for their participation and encourage them to keep practicing their executive functioning skills.
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Slide Deck

Executive Functioning Wrap-Up: Your Super Skills!

Flexibility, Organization, Planning – Let's see how far we've come!

Welcome students back. Start with an energetic tone. Explain that today is about celebrating their growth and looking ahead. Ask them to think about what 'super skills' they might have developed.

Our Executive Functioning Journey

Over the past three weeks, we've explored some amazing 'super skills':

  • Flexibility
  • Organization
  • Planning

How have these helped you?

Transition to reviewing the past few weeks. Emphasize that executive functioning skills are like tools they've been adding to their personal 'toolkit.'

Flexibility: Bending, Not Breaking!

What is it?

Being able to adapt to changes, new ideas, or unexpected situations without getting stuck.

Why is it important?

Life is full of surprises! Being flexible helps us stay calm and find new solutions.

Briefly define flexibility and ask for examples from students' own lives or from earlier group sessions. Prompt: "Can anyone give an example of when being flexible really helped them out?"

Organization: The Power of Order!

What is it?

Keeping track of your materials, tasks, and thoughts so you can easily find what you need and know what to do.

Why is it important?

When things are organized, you save time, reduce stress, and can focus better on your goals!

Briefly define organization and ask for examples. Prompt: "How has being more organized helped you with school or at home?"

Planning: Charting Your Course!

What is it?

Thinking ahead, setting goals, and breaking down big tasks into smaller, manageable steps.

Why is it important?

Good planning helps you reach your goals, whether it's finishing a big project or getting ready for a fun event!

Briefly define planning and ask for examples. Prompt: "What's one thing you planned for recently that went really well?"

My Super Skills Toolkit (Reflection Time!)

Now it's YOUR turn to reflect!

  • Think about the past three weeks.
  • How have you used Flexibility, Organization, and Planning?
  • What challenges did you face?
  • What did you learn?
  • What skills do you want to keep practicing?

Take your time and be honest with yourself!

Introduce the worksheet. Explain that this is their chance to show themselves how much they've grown. Emphasize honest self-assessment.

Share & Celebrate Our Growth!

Let's hear from each other!

  • What was one

Facilitate sharing. Encourage positive feedback and active listening. Highlight different strategies students used. Remind them that everyone's journey is unique.

Keep Those Super Skills Soaring!

Your executive functioning journey doesn't end here!

  • What's one 'super skill' you'll commit to using this week?
  • Keep practicing!
  • You've got this!

Thank you for being a part of this group!

Wrap up the session. Emphasize that these skills are ongoing. Collect the worksheets. Thank them for their hard work and wish them well.

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Worksheet

My Super Skills Toolkit: Executive Functioning Wrap-Up

Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________

1. Flexibility: Bending, Not Breaking!

  • What I've learned about flexibility:






  • One time I used flexibility (give an example!):






  • A challenge I still face with flexibility (and how I might try to overcome it):






2. Organization: The Power of Order!

  • What I've learned about organization:






  • One time I used organization (give an example!):






  • A challenge I still face with organization (and how I might try to overcome it):






3. Planning: Charting Your Course!

  • What I've learned about planning:






  • One time I used planning (give an example!):






  • A challenge I still face with planning (and how I might try to overcome it):






My Commitment:

  • **One
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