For many learners in today’s classrooms, a lack of appropriate executive function (EF) skills—which includes the ability to switch between topics and activities, initiate action, cope with change, make choices, plan and organize, manage time, inhibit impulses, regulate emotions, and solve problems—make reaching high expectations difficult. Often these students are seen as unmotivated or behaviorally challenged.
Although it may seem as though a student could meet expectations if they wanted to, but doesn’t do so because they simply won’t, perhaps the reality is that they lack the skills to do what is expected and, therefore, cannot meet the expectations without support. In these sessions, participants will gain an understanding of how deficits in executive function affect a student’s learning and behavior and discover how to incorporate numerous evidence-based strategies into school settings that build competent EF skills and provide a foundation for learning and thriving in all environments.
FLIPP Executive Functioning PD
