PLAY

We live in an increasingly serious world, with any number of  challenges...  Let's balance these challenge with things that focus on joy!  Let's spend more time on PLAY!

Working on MISTAKES

 What do we/can we learn from making mistakes?

A new topic I am beginning to explore.   Please stay tuned in…

Fran

Retrieving an old post

 Had a recent request from a teacher friend looking for info on pre reading skills

Found several good posts on this site!

A Year of Work on "Learning How to Learn"

 After collecting, reviewing, and reporting on Executive Function sources, I am reposting summaries of work from the last 3 months (January to March, 2021) that focuses on Executive Function skills.  

Instructional Ideas for Goal Setting/Planning/Initiating  

Note:  These sources are classroom oriented, but can be individualized or personalized! This is the final week postings of a year-long series on teaching children (K-12) Executive Function skills    from the following source:

Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom, Lynn Meltzer

Executive Function in the Classroom, Christopher Kaufman, Ph.D.

Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom, Joyce Cooper-Kahn and Margaret Foster

The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie Saxton Sharpe

                                                                               

Meltzer

*Understanding the Big Picture

*Valuing the Task

*Setting Proximal, Specific and Appropriately Challenging Goals

                ^Prioritizing Tasks: Obligation, Aspiration, Negotiation

 

Cooper-Kahn and Foster (Classroom Culture, PLANNING, Routines, Classroom Design)

*Planning Assignments with Students’ Executive Load in Mind

*Managing Time Frames with Executive Functioning I Mind

*Strategy Training

 

Strosnider and Sharpe

(Planning within the Prioritizing, Organizing, Sequencing, Managing Time, Planning cluster)

*Planners

*Backward Mapping Strategy (across a month-long time frame)

*Checklist Strategy Card

*Visual Schedule

Kaufman did not have any specific suggestions for this/these skills.

 

 

 

Going Back to School

 I've missed this post.  Will be updating it with focus on Learning How to Learn, beginning In Kindergarten.

This is what I'm working on: My PBWords site: http://growandlearn.pbworks.com/w/page/130742346/Table%20of%20Contents

I will no longer post on TALK. You can find relevant posts on the following sites:

My sites on Language, Literacy, and Learning.  I hope you will follow one of those sites!

Grow and Learn….has its own table of contents

http://growandlearn.pbworks.com/w/page/130742346/Table%20of%20Contents

Classroom Discourse:  Posting directly from Grow and Learn….already posted Table of Contents

https://classroomdiscourse.wordpress.com/

Learn to Learn:

http://wanttolearn.edublogs.org/category/worth-learning-purpose-outcome/

Facebook: Explorience: LL and L 

https://www.facebook.com/tooomey.edu/

Supporting Early Literacy Skills

https://www.facebook.com/FToomey/