Executive Functioning: What You Need to Know to Help Your Student Grow!
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Show Notes
Guests: Dr. J’Aime Balogh, Jenitta Eskew, and Nena Graham
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Executive Functioning - are all of the cognitive skills necessary to regulate your thinking, feelings/emotions, and behaviors to reach a goal.
Executive Functioning skills are necessary for all of the other cognitive functions - these are the primary functions that make up what we call “executive functioning”:
- Memory
- Attention
- Motor Skills
- Verbalizing
- Visualizing
- Completing Learning Tasks
Executive functioning skills include
- Task initiation - starting and stopping tasks
- Response inhibition - keeping yourself from responding impulsively
- Focus - how to stay on task and not get distracted
- Time management - planning good use of your time and avoiding procrastination
- Working memory - holding information in your mind long enough to do something with it
- Flexibility - being able to shift ideas and plans
- Self-regulation - being able to reflect on your actions and make changes
- Emotional self-control - managing your emotions and reflecting on your emotions
- Task completion - sustaining levels of task and attention to complete a task
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