Overview
Author and educator Sarah Kesty offers educators practical tools to teach executive function skills—such as planning, time management, and organization—through classroom strategies, structured lessons, and academic coaching. By integrating these skills into daily routines, teachers can reduce classroom frustration while empowering students to develop self-awareness, responsibility, independence, and ownership of their learning behaviors through practical strategies and reflective exercises.
Grades 6–12 teachers can use this book to:
- Understand integral facets of executive function and its impacts on student learning
- Master effective lesson plan structure to instill core executive function skills
- Engage in academic coaching conversations to build students’ skills and self-awareness
- Adopt strategies to encourage executive function for students with diverse learning needs
- Develop support systems for students struggling with executive function development
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101
Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function–Empowered Classroom
Chapter 3: Teaching Executive Function Skills
Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching
Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits
Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Index
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