Executive Function Strategies for a Successful School Year | Teachers, Parents & Students
Executive function skills shape how students plan, start, organize and manage their work. This 48-page guidebook turns that research into everyday strategies for teachers, parents and students, starting with an assessment before the year begins.
What's Inside
- Understanding executive function: the brain's management system
- Assessing executive function needs before the school year
- Strengthening working memory
- Building time management and planning skills
- Organization systems for materials and assignments
- Task initiation: getting started without the struggle
- Cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation and self-monitoring
- Strategies at home, classroom strategies, technology, age groups and troubleshooting
- Printable tools: templates, checklists and tools in the appendix.
How It Helps You
- Helps you assess needs before the school year starts
- Builds working memory, planning and organization step by step
- Gives matching strategies for home and classroom
Ways to Use It
Use it in class, in tutoring or support sessions, and at home with parents and students working together.
Who It's For
Special education and general education teachers, parents, tutors and students.
Format
PDF, 48 pages. Instant download, print or read on any device.
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