Provide options for executive functions
Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Provide multiple means of Action and Expression’
On this page:
On this page:
Current page section: Provide options for executive functions
Go to top of current page: Provide options for executive functions
Go to top of current page: Provide options for executive functions
Go to top of current page: Provide options for executive functions
Overview
Overview
Explore the 'options for executive functions' guideline.
Recognise which approaches and strategies are already part of your practice.
Take note of anything you hadn't considered before.
Closed Captions
Guide goal setting
Guide goal setting
Provide students with strategies to break down goals and determine the steps needed to achieve their goals.
Explore practical UDL strategies in the Goalbook toolkit.
![10829 [graphic-organisers.JPG]](https://inclusive-live-storagestack-assetstorages3bucket-3uty0hejzw6u.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/public/inclusive-education/example-images/graphic-organisers__ScaleMaxWidthWzEwODZd.JPG)
Source: Cherie Le Quesne, Karori Normal School
Support self management
Support self management
Over time, introduce students to a range of tools and approaches to help them organise themselves.
Consistently build them into your learning environment.
- Use charts, visual calendars, colour coded schedules, visible timers, and cues to increase the predictability of regular activities and transitions.
- Encourage students to use their mobile devices to schedule alerts and reminders for regular and novel events and task deadlines.
- Offer stickies to remind students of tasks or what to do next.
- Teach mnemonics to prompt memory and the retrieval of important concepts or approaches they can use.
- Model and make available graphic organisers and flow charts to support planning and thinking in all curriculum areas.
- Break tasks and lengthy assignments into small manageable parts. Schedule workflow using tools such as Trello to organise what needs to be done and when.
- Provide options so that students can submit work online.
Support progress monitoring
Support progress monitoring
Reflection questions
Reflection questions
- How will I support students to set reasonable learning goals to extend themselves (for example, prompts, scaffold efforts, model examples of process and product, checklists)?
- What tools do the students need to reach their goals (for example, embed prompts to stop and think, show and explain work, portfolio review, checklists, templates)?
- How will I support students to organise information (for example, graphic organisers and templates, prompts for categorizing, checklists)?
- What tools will I provide to support student thinking (for example, concept maps, apps, graphic organisers)?
- How will I provide explicit, informative, and timely feedback that supports learners in monitoring their progress and guiding their efforts (for example, questions, progress reporting/documenting, rubrics)?
Useful resources
Useful resources
Seven ideas for student reflection
Seven simple ideas to get your students reflecting on their own thinking and learning.
Publisher: 4 O'Clock Faculty
Three brain-based teaching strategies to build executive function in students
Read time: 10 min
This is a blog post that provides some teaching strategies to help build executive function in your students.
Publisher: Edutopia
Next steps
More suggestions for implementing the strategy “Provide multiple means of Action and Expression”:
-
Current page Provide options for executive functions
Return to the guide “Universal Design for Learning”
![11449 [Universal-Design-for-Learning-002.jpg]](https://inclusive-live-storagestack-assetstorages3bucket-3uty0hejzw6u.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/public/inclusive-education/guides/featured-images/Universal-Design-for-Learning-002__FillWzIwOCwyMDhd.jpg)
How to use this site
Guide to Index of the guide: Universal Design for Learning
Understand:
- Why UDL is valuable
-
Find out about UDLShow suggestions for Find out about UDL
Strategies for action:
-
Provide multiple means of EngagementShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Engagement
-
Provide multiple means of RepresentationShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Representation
-
Provide multiple means of Action and ExpressionShow suggestions for Provide multiple means of Action and Expression
- The strategic network, planning and sharing learning
- Provide options for physical action
- Provide options for expression
- Provide options for executive functions
-
How to plan using UDLShow suggestions for How to plan using UDL
-
Design considerations in primary settingsShow suggestions for Design considerations in primary settings
-
Design considerations in secondary settingsShow suggestions for Design considerations in secondary settings
-
Design considerations in NCEA assessmentsShow suggestions for Design considerations in NCEA assessments
