Executive functioning goals are increasingly requested and rarely well-written. The trick is converting invisible cognition (planning, organizing) into visible artifacts: a started task within 3 minutes, a completed planner entry, an assignment submitted on time. Each template below measures the artifact, not the abstraction.
At the start of each work period, [Student] will gather all required materials and begin the assigned task within 3 minutes with no more than one reminder in 80% of observed periods across 3 consecutive weeks by [date].
Measured by: Observation checklist
[Student] will record assignments in a planner or digital tracker and submit completed work on time for 80% of assignments per grading period, improving from a baseline of [current level]%, as measured by planner checks and the gradebook by [date].
Measured by: Planner checks, gradebook data
Given a multi-step assignment, [Student] will independently break it into steps with target dates and complete each step according to the plan in 4 out of 5 assignments, as measured by planning documents and teacher review by [date].
Measured by: Planning template, teacher review
Every goal above follows the same skeleton: Given [condition], [student] will [observable behavior], achieving [criterion], as measured by [method], by [date]. Fill all five parts and the goal is measurable by definition.
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