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Strategies to Support Executive Function
Take the time to know your students and understand their profile and their strengths and needs.
Explicitly teach the concept of Executive Functions and practice those skills as a class.
Activation: organizing, prioritizing and activating to work
Focus: focusing, sustaining and shifting attention to tasks
Effort: regulating and sustaining alertness, and speed of execution
Emotion: managing frustration and regulating emotions
Memory: using working memory and accessing recall
Action: monitoring and self-regulating behaviour
Explicitly teach the concept of Executive Functions and practice those skills as a class.
Activation: organizing, prioritizing and activating to work
- Learning Skills: Organization and Initiative
- Classroom Strategy:
- Explicitly teach and model how to break tasks into simple steps
Focus: focusing, sustaining and shifting attention to tasks
- Learning Skill: Independent Work
- Classroom Strategy:
- Provide instructions in a number of ways (written, oral, visual)
- Chunk information and instructions for tasks
Effort: regulating and sustaining alertness, and speed of execution
- Learning Skill: Responsibility
- Classroom Strategy:
- Explicitly teach and model the amount of time required to complete a task
- Encourage use of organizational tools (e.g. agendas, calendars). Know your student and what works for them. Agendas can be a waste of time for some students
Emotion: managing frustration and regulating emotions
- Learning Skills: Collaboration and Self-regulation
- Classroom Strategy:
- Give descriptive and authentic feedback and positive reinforcement frequently
Memory: using working memory and accessing recall
- Learning Skill: Independent Work
- Classroom Strategy:
- Keep instructions simple and provide them in a number of ways
- Check for understanding of instructions
- Use colour coding to help with memory and organization
Action: monitoring and self-regulating behaviour
- Learning Skill: Self-regulation
- Classroom Strategy:
- Frequent check-ins - establish rapport and check-in regularly
- Work together with student to develop strategies
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