Goals and Objectives of this Course:       

• Reflect on assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, specific to executive functioning in professional practice.
• Explore the brain processes that allow executive function to develop and improve.
• Learn specific structures and activities to teach and reinforce executive skills.
• Learn interventions and accommodations that can be applied when students have an executive functioning challenge.
• Identify life skills related to executive functions and plan for classroom implementation including: control consciousness, engagement, collaboration, empowerment, efficacy and leadership.
• Explore and practice facilitation skills.
• Reflect on ways to build a culture of executive function focus in the classroom.