Learning Skills & Work Habits
We now return to the learning skills and work habits reported on all students’ report cards, and outlined in Growing Success: Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting in Ontario Schools.
How are Learning Skills & Work Habits Related to Executive Functions?
- Review the following report card excerpt, or page 12 of Growing Success. Click here to access the document Growing Success.
- How are the learning skills and work habits connected to executive functions? What are the main similarities and/or differences?
Stumped? Not sure where to begin?
The following sections outline the associated behaviours of the learning skills and work habits, and proposes the executive functioning skills that students may need to successfully perform these behaviours. Please note that the list is not exhaustive, and that each student will have different strengths and needs based on their individual profile.
Responsibility
task initiation, planning, self-monitoring
task initiation, planning, self-monitoring, organization
self-monitoring, emotional control, impulse control
Organization
planning, task initiation, impulse control, working memory
planning, self-monitoring
Independent Work
self-monitoring
self-monitoring, impulse control
working memory, self-monitoring
Collaboration
emotional control, impulse control, cognitive flexibility
cognitive flexibility
emotional control, impulse control
emotional control, cognitive flexibility
organizationm, planning, task initiation, working memory
Initiative
planning, task initiation
emotional control
emotional control, impulse control
Self-Regulation
self-monitoring, task initiaiton
task initiation, self-monitoring
planning, self-monitoring
emotional control, cognitive flexibility