Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies
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- English
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Executive Function Skills in the Classroom
Overcoming Barriers, Building Strategies
About This Book
With insight and humor, this motivating guide shows how to bring executive functions (EF) to the forefront in Kā8 classrooms--without adopting a new curriculum or scripted program. Ideal for professional development, the book includes flexible, practical, research-based ideas for implementation in a variety of classroom contexts. It shares stories from dozens of expert teachers who are integrating explicit EF support across the school day. Provided is a clear approach for talking about EF barriers and strategies as part of instruction, and working as a class to problem-solve, explore, and apply the strategies that feel right for each student. Several reproducible tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.
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- Cover
- The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Executive Function and Learning
- Chapter 2: Laying the Foundation: Building Whole-Class EF Literacy
- Chapter 3: How EF Literacy Can Improve Instruction: A Simple and Versatile Approach
- Chapter 4: How EF Literacy Can Improve Observation
- Chapter 5: How EF Literacy Can Improve Feedback
- Chapter 6: How EF Literacy Can Improve Summative Assessment
- Chapter 7: How EF-Literate Teaching Supports Other Educational Priorities
- Chapter 8: History and Reflections: Our Work with Teachers
- Appendix A: Strategy Teaching Interventions for Executive Functions
- Appendix B: EF Basics: A Series of 11 Mini-Lessons to Build Whole-Class EF Literacy (Grade 2 and Up)
- Appendix C: Mentor Texts for Teaching About Executive Functions
- Appendix D: Index of EF Barriers and Strategies
- References
- Index
- About Guilford Press
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