Executive Function

Your Culturally Responsive Classroom: A Socially Shared Approach

How can we ensure that school is responsive, supportive, and nurturing for all students, even if they do not experience that connecting first interaction?

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Stop, Observe and Act: A Strategy for Managing Attention, Impulsiveness and Anxiety

ADHD and anxiety have become big problems for classroom teachers. New research on the notion of cognitive control leads us to believe that managing attention, impulsiveness, and anxiety requires several shared skills, which can be taught explicitly. 

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Webinar Recording: Recognizing and Understanding Girls with ADHD

ADHD is a prevalent diagnosis, but girls are often missed because their ADHD presents in different ways than boys, leading to misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis.

By |May 28th, 2021|Categories: Assessment & Evaluations, Dual Diagnosis, Executive Function, Mental Health & Well-Being|Tags: , , , , |Comments Off on Webinar Recording: Recognizing and Understanding Girls with ADHD
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LEARNING MODULE: Helping Students with LDs Navigate Secondary School

This module is intended to provide an introduction to the new demands and expectations that are placed on students when they begin secondary school and prepare educators to support students with LDs while they navigate their way through secondary school.

By |August 28th, 2020|Categories: Behaviour, Educator Supports, Executive Function, Mental Health & Well-Being, Self-Advocacy, Transitions|Tags: , , |Comments Off on LEARNING MODULE: Helping Students with LDs Navigate Secondary School

Avoiding Working Memory Overload in Students with LDs

Students with working memory deficits will have to work much harder than their typically developing peers to learn and carry out classroom activities. The strategies outlined in this article can help to increase the efficiency and functioning of working memory to avoid overload.

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Supporting Online Learning Using the Brain’s Natural Strengths

Online learning requires considerably more voluntary focus and the ability to persist when an effort is needed. By using the four pillars of learning, active engagement, attention, error feedback, and consolidation you can support all your students when they are learning away from the classroom.

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Five Strategies for Helping Students with LDs Avoid Procrastination

Studies show that many students postpone their schoolwork, which affects school performance. Procrastination is particularly present in students with learning disabilities (LDs), where resilience and persistence in dealing with a task are often weaker. 

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Keeping School Work on Track: Staying Organized with Graphic Organizers

Students with a learning disability (LD) often have difficulty keeping schoolwork organized.  A graphic organizer can help students organize assignments into manageable pieces and guide them through the process to completion. 

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What strategies can we use to improve a student’s flexibility?

Much of the time, flexibility problems persist less because of a lack of objectively good strategies and more because of a lack of the motivation, engagement, and interest to get behind a strategy and apply it.

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Adapted Webinar: Beyond “Lazy” and “Unmotivated” – Why Educators Need to Know about Executive Skills

This webinar was adapted from a keynote address delivered at the LD@school Educators’ Institute in 2017. The LD@school team is pleased to present the session: Beyond “Lazy" and "Unmotivated” - Why Educators Need to Know about Executive Skills presented by Dr. Peg Dawson.

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