Inspired by Task #2 of the FAVRES (Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies), this task is all about the high-level process of scheduling when you have limited time, competing activities, and too much information! Task #2 of the FAVRES (Scheduling a Work Day) has shown to be "the most discriminating among nine other measures in separating adults who had returned to work from those who had not" (MacDonald & Johnson, 2005).

Using the information given, track your client's ability to weigh pros and cons, filter out irrelevant information while prioritizing relevant and important events, generate alternatives and use verbal logic and reasoning. This task is a real challenge, and is best suited for adults who are honing their high-level cognitive communication and executive functioning skills - especially for those who are looking to join the work force.

This product includes 5 different daily scheduling tasks, and 5 different weekly scheduling tasks.

Daily:

1. A museum curator's work day juggling tours and administrative work
2. A high school teacher's work day who needs to teach, grade, and be seemingly everywhere at once
3. Arranging and preparing a surprise birthday party coordinating many people's efforts
4. An artist with multiple projects and deadlines
5. A dog walker looking to optimize billable hours with many clients, locations, and responsibilities

Weekly:

1. Helping a college student decide which classes she should enrol in with a complicated schedule.
2. Coordinating which talks and meetings to go to at a week-long conference.
3. A woman visiting a new city for a week with many friends to see and places to visit.
4. A caterer who must plan, prepare, and provide full service catering during a busy week.
5. A yoga studio owner who has to schedule many teachers and many classes into a small, busy space.

This task also includes a schedule template to record answers and reasons why each task was scheduled for that particular time slot, and post-task questions at the end. These questions are meant to look into the reasoning behind the decisions that the client made. Target areas include weighing information, prioritizing and planning, filtering out irrelevant information, divergent thinking, flexible thinking, and logic and reasoning.

Do you like these activities? Check out my activity based off FAVRES Task 4: Writing a complaint letter to work on processing and filtering important information, writing succinctly with an appropriate amount of context, building an argument, and pragmatic skills.

NOTE: There is NO answer key to this product as there can be many potential correct answers. Instead of looking for right/wrong, dive deeper into the reasoning why or why not.

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