Monday, March 29, 2021

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.