Executive Functioning For All Students
3 credits / 45 hours
Instructor Katherine Squires
Course Description
Today’s 21s century students have more on their plate than ever before. From video games, the internet, social media, smartphones, and a plethora of outside activities, students today need a different skill set from students in the past. To meet the needs of students today, teachers must employ a variety of strategies and techniques to ensure students are able to function inside and outside the classroom. Executive Functioning is an area of growing research that helps students not only be successful in the classroom, but also helps to prepare them for their future. This course will help all teachers learn the research behind executive functioning and learn how to easily integrate those strategies in their lessons.
Course Description
Today’s 21s century students have more on their plate than ever before. From video games, the internet, social media, smartphones, and a plethora of outside activities, students today need a different skill set from students in the past. To meet the needs of students today, teachers must employ a variety of strategies and techniques to ensure students are able to function inside and outside the classroom. Executive Functioning is an area of growing research that helps students not only be successful in the classroom, but also helps to prepare them for their future. This course will help all teachers learn the research behind executive functioning and learn how to easily integrate those strategies in their lessons.
Course Objectives
Students that enroll in this class will...
Know
- what executive functioning is
- what executive dysfunctioning is
- a variety of learning strategies that support students’ in today's 21st century world
Understand
- the importance of understanding executive functioning skills.
- the teacher’s role in supporting executive functioning.
- how executive functioning techniques can promote academic success for students
and Be Able To
- create lessons that incorporate executive functioning strategies
- incorporate executive functioning strategies into their specific settings
- effectively evaluate students in different ways
