Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan for Executive Skills (lesson title)

School Counselor: Elizabeth Rosenfeld

Target Audience: 7th grade
Mindsets & Behaviors: M-5. Belief in using abilities to their fullest to achieve high-quality
(limit of three) results and outcomes.
B-LS 3. Use time-management, organizational and study skills.
Lesson 1 Of 1

Learning Objective(s)/Competency
Students will: Be able to name and effectively use at least 3 study strategies.

Students will: Be able to create a study plan that helps organize subjects and manage
time.

Materials:
● Pre/Post test
● PowerPoint on study strategies
● Time-management worksheet
● Short quiz
● Noise makers
Evidence Base:
⬜ Best Practice
⬜ Action Research
⬜ Research-Informed
⬜ Evidence-Based
Procedure: Describe how you will:
Introduce: Pre-test (7 min):
● Hand out pre-test to class and have each student fill it out.
Discuss some of their answers.
Ask the class (3 min):
● What are some strategies you use when studying? Record
responses on the board.
Communicate The lesson objective is to be able to understand how to manage your
Lesson Objective: time when doing homework or studying, the type of study environment
that works best for you, and different study strategies that help you
learn the material better.

Teach Content: Present (7 min):

● Present the PowerPoint slides to explain different study
strategies to the students. Make sure students understand they
can use more than one option. They can also try different
strategies until they find the one that works best for them.

Time-management worksheet (10 min):

● Have each student fill out a time-management worksheet. The
worksheet asks them to evaluate how often they plan ahead, use
a calendar, or procrastinate.
● After they are done discuss what strategies could be used to help
improve their time-management skills from “not too much” or
“sometimes” to “often, usually”. Also discuss who around them
could help them with time-management.

Practice Content: Study environment activity (15 min):

● Pass out three small quizzes to the entire class. The quiz will not
be graded or collected. Each student will take the first quiz while
it is completely silent in the classroom. The next quiz will be
taken while there are a lot of very loud background noises. The
final quiz will be take while there is some noise, but it is not that
loud and not silent. After all the quizzes are done, we will discuss
what it was like to take the quizzes in each environment. Which
worked best for students? What did or didn’t you like about it?

Summarize: Summary (5 min):

● Discuss with the students what we learned today. Write on the
board new study strategies students learned.

Close: Post-test (3 min):

● Provide post-test to all students and collect at the end to check
for understanding of the lesson.

Data Collection Plan – For multiple lessons in a unit, this section only need be completed once
Participation Data:
Anticipated number Classroom lesson on executive skills will be delivered to all 42 students in
of students: 7th grade during an English class period.
Planned length of 50 minutes
lesson(s):
Mindsets & Behaviors Data:
A pre-test and post-test will be administered to the class. By the end of the lesson, at least 95%
of the students will be able to name three study strategies. 75% of the students will be able to
create a study plan to manage their time better.
▪ Pre-test administered before first lesson - Yes
▪ Post-test administered after lesson - Yes
▪ Pre-/post-assessment attached - Yes
Outcome Data: (choose one)
⬜ Achievement (describe):
By the end of the school year, 7th grade average core GPA will increase by 3% from 2.94 to 3.03.

⬜ Attendance (describe):

⬜ Discipline (describe):