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Growing Executive Function
Empowering Secondary Students With Skills for Lifelong Success
Educators gain practical, research-based educational tools to explicitly grow and teach executive function. Designed for secondary students, this book helps teachers support students, increase independence, and create calmer and more effective classrooms—where students manage time, advocate for themselves, and thrive independently.
Benefits
- Understand integral facets of executive function and its impacts on student learning
- Master effective lesson plan structure to instill core executive function skills
- Engage in academic coaching conversations to build students’ skills and self-awareness
- Adopt strategies to encourage executive function for students with diverse learning needs
- Develop support systems for students struggling with executive function development
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101
Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function–Empowered Classroom
Chapter 3: Teaching Executive Function Skills
Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching
Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits
Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports
Appendix A: Executive Function Skills Lessons
Appendix B: Formal Executive Function Diagnostic Tools
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101
- Figure 1.2: The Executive Function Tree With Branches, Roots, and Leaves
- Executive Function Skills List
Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function–Empowered Classroom
- Figure 2.1: My Easy Wins Reflection
- Figure 2.6: Example Student Cheat Sheets for Common Memory Needs
Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching
- Table 4.2: Ways to Respond to “I Don’t Know”
- Table 4.3: Question Stems and Statements for Phase 1—Developing Rapport, Self-Awareness, and a Goal
- Table 4.4: Question Stems and Statements for Phase 2—Choosing Strategies
- Table 4.5: Question Stems and Statements for Phase 3—Taking Accountability and Action
Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits
- Figure 5.4: A Plan and a Promise
- Student Executive Function Skills Reflection
- Teacher Executive Function Skills Reflection
Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports
- Figure 6.3: Classroom Environment List for Executive Function
- Figure 6.4: Classroom Setup for Emotional Regulation and Engagement Observation List
- Figure 6.6: Executive Function Accommodation Ideas
- A Plan to Build Executive Function: Interventions for Your Class or Individual Students
Appendix A: Executive Function Skills Lessons
- Figure A.3: The PSP4 Organizing Strategy
- Figure A.5: Test Replay Reflective Tool
- Figure A.8: Priority Matrix
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