Executive functions are a set of skills that help us manage our day to day activities and responsibilities. It is critical that we teach these skills to our students -- we cannot expect them to know about these skills. Think of it in terms of teaching a child to read, to ride a bike, to throw a ball, to bake cookies, etc.
Students have more responsibility, requirements, demands and distractions and building these executive functions help them manage all of it in a healthy way.
There are many resources that are available to help us, as teachers to begin our journey to executive function awareness and implementation. I will list a few below.
Executive Functions & Self Regulation
General Information about Executive Functions
The next post will talk about the importance of getting our own executive function strengths and struggles identified before we work on implementation with others.
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