Course | Executive Functioning in the Classroom

Instructor

Jennifer Hair

Jennifer Hair, M.A., is an experienced business and visual arts teacher with over 21 years of experience in the secondary classroom. She is passionate teacher educator who loves sharing her love of personal and professional development, students and integrating technology in real-world learning situations. She specializes in using social media for professional development, web technologies, and everything Adobe Creative Suite. She is the Director of Connected Classroom and so excited to be on a team with fellow classroom teachers providing meaningful and amazing useful PD to other teachers.

Course Description

Students with strong executive function skills hold the keys to school and social success - from attention to impulse control to time management and organization. This course is for teachers K-12 providing a practical guide to enhancing these critical skills for all students, with and without learning disabilities. Learn to help students in key executive functions: organization, homework completion, time management, study skills, impulse control, planning skills, and adaptability. This teacher-friendly course lays a clear and simple path to stronger executive skills for all students - and lasting academic and social success.

Required Texts and Other Materials:

Executive Function in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students by Christopher Kaufman.

Course Objectives:

- Define executive function
- Identify and explain the core strands of executive function, and describe the range of executive skills within each strand
- Discuss essential roles of attention, working memory and other executive functions in information processing
- Increase knowledge and improve executive function skills in specific academic subjects: reading, math and writing
- Adapt instruction and classroom structure to enhance students’ executive skills
- Implement executive functioning coaching process that helps students plan, organize, and complete assignments
- Develop individual behavior support plans that address underlying executive function challenges

Credit

3 Credit Hours.
Colorado State University - Pueblo.

Credit may be available for this course and may vary by country or institution. Please verify eligibility with Connected Classroom.