Organization

Highlight material/key words with different colors for catagorization

Implement a housekeeping day to clean desks/lockers

Visual schedules to keep day structured

Planners to help students stay on top of assignments

Calendars to organize events

Pictures of what clean/organized areas look like to use as a visual reference

Show what “done” looks like to determine what supplies are necessary

Walk through classroom arrangement and discuss why room is ordered in this way

Create study plans

Checklists or picture list to help students stay organized and enure completeness

Rubrics and study guides to break down requirements

Labeled bins, compartments, or bags for materials

Color coded organization

Folders with labels
Notebooks for subjects

Implement a system of organization for one specific area at a time

Children's books that teach organizational skills such as

Get Organized Without Losing It by Janet S. Fox

References

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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2014). Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence. www.developingchild.harvard.edu.
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