Executive Function Skills & Academic Success

Executive function skills help children remember and follow multi-step instructions, avoid distractions, control rash responses, adjust when rules change, persist at problem solving and manage long-term assignments. Some experts believe EF skills are a better indicator of academic success than IQ! The students in your classroom are most likely exhibiting vastly different levels of EF skills mastery and as you know, when these skills are lacking, your job is far more difficult.

In this program, presenter Bryan Harris, Ed.D. shares ways to help students develop and hone their EF skills. He defines and demonstrates how the brain works at EF skills and why some students have a more difficult time with mastery than others. Viewers will gain take-aways methods and practices to improve the Executive Function skills of all students providing a more manageable, achievement-oriented classroom.