4 Ways to Promote Executive Functioning Skills
Middle and high school teachers can build activities that foster students’ executive functioning skills into their daily routines
Middle and high school teachers can build activities that foster students’ executive functioning skills into their daily routines
Why should parents focus on executive functions skills with their children? Because it is the mental process that enables us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully
Teachers can boost middle school students’ self-management skills by using questions to get their mental gears turning.
With the loss of preschool time over the past year, many kids starting kindergarten will benefit from a focus on executive function skills.
Executive functioning skills are some of the most important--and most overlooked--skills for kids to learn and build. Here's how to help them develop these important skills
With explicit coaching, high school students can learn to manage their increasingly complex academic and extracurricular commitments.
Kids with strong working memory tend to perform well in school, and teachers can help them strengthen this executive functioning skill.
When adults support development of teens’ executive function skills during the critical years of adolescence, it can have a lifelong impact.
Students who struggle with executive functioning may find hybrid learning difficult, but there are simple ways to make it easier.
Middle school and high school students suddenly face more complex schedules, tougher academic work, and an expanding network of friends. How can we help them manage it all?