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Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons
Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons

Executive Functions Activities: Executive Functioning Counseling Lessons

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Help your students strengthen essential executive functioning skills with this complete curriculum! Includes 20 scripted lessons with ready-to-use slides, student handouts, and visuals covering planning, organization, time management, working memory, self-monitoring, emotional control, and more. Perfect for school counseling, small groups, or classroom SEL instruction.


Help your students build the executive functioning skills they need to succeed in school and beyond with this comprehensive, ready-to-use curriculum! Designed for school counselors, teachers, and specialists, this resource includes 20 detailed lessons that target every core area of executive function.

Each lesson is fully planned and comes with engaging slides, student handouts, tools, and visuals: everything you need to make executive functioning skills both accessible and fun for your students.


What’s Included:
  • 20 Complete Lessons with step-by-step scripts
  • Ready-to-Go Slides for classroom, small group, or counseling use
  • Student Handouts & Tools to practice EF strategies
  • Visual Supports to make concepts stick 
  • Over 200 pages of lesson plans, student tools, and activities for engagement
Lesson Topics:
  • Lessons 1–2: Introduction to Executive Function
  • Lessons 3–5: Goal-Directed Persistence
  • Lesson 6: Working Memory
  • Lesson 7: Planning
  • Lesson 8: Prioritization
  • Lesson 9: Organization
  • Lessons 10–11: Time Management
  • Lesson 12: Task Initiation
  • Lesson 13: Response Inhibition
  • Lesson 14: Sustained Attention
  • Lessons 15–16: Cognitive Flexibility
  • Lesson 17: Problem Solving
  • Lesson 18: Emotional Control
  • Lesson 19: Self-Monitoring
  • Lesson 20: Metacognition
Perfect For:
  • Whole-class SEL lessons
  • Small group counseling
  • Executive functioning skill groups
Skills Students Will Learn:
✔️ How to set and achieve goals
✔️ Strategies to improve working memory
✔️ Planning, organizing, and prioritizing tasks
✔️ Time management and task initiation
✔️ Self-monitoring and metacognition
✔️ Emotional regulation and problem solving
✔️ Sustaining attention and inhibiting impulses
✔️ Adapting with cognitive flexibility


Why Teachers & Counselors Love It
  • Low Prep: Just open the slides and teach
  • Student-Friendly: Interactive, visual, and engaging activities
  • Flexible: Adaptable for grades 5–8
Ready to build independence and confidence in your students?
This Executive Functioning Curriculum has everything you need to explicitly teach and reinforce these critical life skills all in one resource!

Please Note: This is a digitally downloadable curriculum. You will not receive anything in the mail. You will receive a one page PDF download with a clickable link to a Google Drive folder. From there, you can download the materials to your device or copy them to your drive. 

License: Purchasing this resource entitles the purchaser to one user license. This means one counselor, educator, or professional may use the materials within. For use on a larger scale, please contact the owner at counselorkeri@gmail.com This resource cannot be shared digitally or uploaded to share drives, private or public.