Are you aware that you need to…..

Mike never uses his agenda planner. He says he doesn’t need one. Unfortunately, he has a test today, and he forgets to prepare. 

Mary has a long-term project for science. She knows she wants to do it, but she doesn’t know how to break it down into parts. 

Executive function starts with awareness. Executive function answers the questions “What?” and “When?”

Executive skills are about acting on awareness and executing a task. Executive skills answer the question “How?”