Supporting Executive Function Skills
In this website you will about executive function skills and how they are important in children's lives. This website also includes helpful resources.
Executive Function Skills
Executive Function skills are a set of cognitive processes that are necessary for the cognitive control of behavior. There are eight components to theses skills; Emotional Control, Flexible Thinking, Working Memory, Self - Monitoring, Planning and Prioritizing, Task Initiation, and Organization. Throughout this toolkit, you will encounter countless resources for supporting these skills in and outside the classroom.
Kelly, Caroline, Jack and Alli
Dr. Lynn Meltzer
"Executive function strategies help students to go beyond the content that is being taught, so that learning is process-based rather than only outcome-based."
Developing Executive Function With Priority Lists
What is this video about?
This video is part of Edutopia's How Learning Happens series. This video shows ways that help adolescence grow in their executive function skills. Along with going gin to depth about executive function and the elements that are involved in it.
Executive Function Skills
What are executive function skills?
“Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully”
-Harvard University
Children's Literature
Podcasts for Executive Function Skills
The Executive Function Podcast: Making therapy feel like PLAY! Playapy!
The Executive Function Podcast: The executive Function-Friendly Home! With Seth Perler, our special guest!
8 Executive Functions
There are 8 executive functions that we look for in students. Self-Control, Self-Monitoring, Emotional Control, Flexibility, Task Initiantion, Organization, Working Memory, and Planning and Time management.
Executive function: Skills for Life
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