Crosscurrents 2023 Online
Sarah Ward
Developing Executive Function Skills: Practical Strategies for Connection, Engagement, and Motivation in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Developing Executive Function Skills: Practical Strategies for Connection, Engagement, and Motivation in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Are you grappling with the challenge of engaging learners in today's post-pandemic educational environment? Teachers across the nation observe and express concern that students struggle with attention, engagement, working memory, motivation, and the persistence and stamina required to follow routines, transition, plan, become and remain organized, complete tasks, and learn effectively. This is the new reality of our educational landscape, where learners are struggling with these crucial aspects of executive function.
In this practical strategy seminar, we will expand on the critical role that relationship-building plays in increasing student engagement. Here, we share a "tiny tweak" that, when incorporated into your existing lesson plans, can completely revamp how you approach teaching students executive functions. Systematically address the skills of forethought, organization, planning, time awareness, task completion, and cognitive flexibility so that students can envision it, organize it, plan it, do it, and get it done!
We will look at the cyclical relationship that links students' task completion success to dopamine production, boosting self-confidence and motivation. See how students' motivation, resilience, and success in school all improve as they develop their sense of self-awareness, their ability to stick with a task, and their willingness to use executive function skills in everyday situations.
Don't just survive in the post-pandemic educational landscape, thrive. Learn our 360 Thinking Executive function program and add these simple but effective executive function resources and methods to your teaching tool box to design a classroom that encourages active learning and motivates students to succeed in school.
In this practical strategy seminar, we will expand on the critical role that relationship-building plays in increasing student engagement. Here, we share a "tiny tweak" that, when incorporated into your existing lesson plans, can completely revamp how you approach teaching students executive functions. Systematically address the skills of forethought, organization, planning, time awareness, task completion, and cognitive flexibility so that students can envision it, organize it, plan it, do it, and get it done!
We will look at the cyclical relationship that links students' task completion success to dopamine production, boosting self-confidence and motivation. See how students' motivation, resilience, and success in school all improve as they develop their sense of self-awareness, their ability to stick with a task, and their willingness to use executive function skills in everyday situations.
Don't just survive in the post-pandemic educational landscape, thrive. Learn our 360 Thinking Executive function program and add these simple but effective executive function resources and methods to your teaching tool box to design a classroom that encourages active learning and motivates students to succeed in school.
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Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP, has over 25 years of experience in the treatment of executive dysfunction. Sarah is an internationally recognized expert on executive function and presents seminars on the programs and strategies she has developed with her Co-Director, Kristen Jacobsen. Their 360 Thinking Executive Function Program received the Innovative Promising Practices Award from the National Organization CHADD. She has presented to over 1700 public and private schools and organizations worldwide.
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Handouts for this workshop will be provided prior to the conference.
