FNB - Functional Skills Benchmark

Figuring out the steps you need to take to complete a task

• Planning
• Organization
• Metacognition
• Time Management

a consistent system that keeps your materials and workspace neat and in order.

• Planning
• Organization
• Metacognition
• Time Management

accurately understanding your own knowledge - knowing what you know and don’t know.

• Planning
• Organization
• Metacognition
• Time Management

 Having an accurate understanding of the time needed to complete tasks and prioritizing what should be done first and at what pace.

• Planning
• Organization
• Metacognition
• Time Management

The ability to start a task right away even with things were are not excited about it.

• Time Management
• Task Initiation
• Perseverance
• Planning

Being able to regulate your thoughts, feelings, and actions.  Involves stopping and thinking before acting.

• Self Control
• Task Initiation
• Metacognition
• Working Memory

Ability to focus on someone or something for a period of time. Requires the ability to shift and redirect our focus.

• Perseverance
• Task Initiation
• Attention
• Working Memory

Ability to hold information in your head while working with it.

• Perseverance
• Task Initiation
• Attention
• Working Memory

Helps us deal with changes and to adapt to new situations - unforeseen changes.

• Perseverance
• Flexibility
• Attention
• Working Memory

Being able to keep working on a task until it is completed. Sticking with it! Working through challenges.

• Perseverance
• Task Initiation
• Attention
• Working Memory