Learning to Learn: Student Skills for School and for Life

Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use provided prompts specific to executive functioning to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
• Design an innovative lesson that includes problem-based learning or the use of voice and/or choice.
• Prepare an activity using discussion techniques to teach collaborative skills.
• Develop a written plan to implement an activity designed to increase students’ conscious control.
• Summarize, in writing, the use of a new instructional strategy aimed to increase executive functioning that requires a challenge to the status quo.
• Outline, in writing, a plan to assist learners with executive functioning challenges. 7. Brainstorm, in writing, strategies to increase executive functioning and life skills in learners.