
15-Minute Focus: Executive Function: Strategies to Build Underdeveloped Skills, Maximize Learning, and Unlock Potential
Synopsis
Are you working with students who:
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Are challenged by organization, transitions, and meeting deadlines?
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Find it difficult to focus, start tasks, and remember what they need to do?
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Have trouble self-monitoring and keeping their emotions and impulses in check?
Many students lack strong executive function, the mental processes that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. But fear not! 15-Minute Focus: Executive Function was written with the brain in mind and equips you with the knowledge and tools to:
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Clarify Executive Function: Gain a clear understanding of twelve crucial skills and their impact on student success.
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Identify Struggles: Discover the connection between emotion and learning and how to recognize signs of stress and underdeveloped executive function.
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Empower Students: Learn practical strategies and interventions to decrease stress and develop executive function in "all kinds of minds."
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Unlock Potential: Help your students boost their productivity, academic success, behavior, social skills, and autonomy.
This transformative guide is your resource for:
- Evidence-Based Practices: Backed by research, these life-changing strategies appeal to students of all ages.
- Actionable Advice: Learn simple tips and quick techniques you can implement immediately in your classroom, home, counseling session, and life.
- Downloads and Reproducible Handouts: Make your job easier by helping students stress less, learn more, and get things done!
Stop wondering why your students struggle. Start empowering them to thrive!
Publisher information
- Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
- ISBN: 9781953945938
- Number of pages: 136
- Dimensions: 214 x 138 x 8 mm
- Weight: 227g
- Languages: English