(And keep their emotions in check!)
Powerful Strategies to Help Children Develop Independent Executive Function Skills

Executive function skills refer to the mental skills we use to pay attention, to organize and plan tasks and materials, to start tasks and stay focused on them, to manage emotions and be flexible, and to keep track of what we are doing. Young children rely on these skills to follow a sequence of instructions for daily tasks while older children need these skills to “break a task down” into a sequence of steps and organize a timeline as the demands for independent learning increases. These skills can impact students at home, school and in social situations.

In these practical strategies seminars parents and professionals will develop a solid understanding of what the executive function skills are and how they impact a student’s academic and personal performance.

Learn practical strategies to:
Improve time management

Building an internal sense of the sweep of time, including how to create and stick to time markers; identify and manage time robbers

Manage of daily time

Long term project management. Reducing procrastination, understanding task demands and prioritizing steps

Task completion

Teach students how to break down complex tasks and assignments and then plan for, organize and initiate tasks

Teach students to be a ‘mental time traveler’ and pre-experience the physical actions to complete a task in prospective time and space.

Learn how to increase a student’s spatial temporal window or how far into the future they can see and sustain prospective planning

Improve organization of materials, papers and personal belongings