Skills for Learning: Executive Function
Skills for Learning:
Executive Function (Managing)
Executive function is a set of complex skills that manage our behaviors relating to setting and completing goals. Executive Functions rely on our attention, working memory, and processing speed (processing skills) to allow our brains to properly manage, organize, and act on information. Executive function skills predict academic and career success. Learn meaningful strategies to support your students’ acquisition of executive function and how to recognize and address Executive Dysfunction.
Skills: Planning, Organizing, Attention Control, Emotional Regulation, Self-Monitoring.
Outcomes: Better focus, goal-setting, and self-regulation.
Did you Know?
Executive functioning involves everything from the planning stage of a task, through the completion of that task. You can think of executive functioning like the CEO of a company. Many people make the mistake of trying to understand and improve executive functioning in a vacuum, which is a mistake because our brains do not operate that way.
of educators were trained on executive functions and how they relate to teaching and learning process in students
of educators have evidence-based resources to help students develop their self-regulation
of educators understand the cognitive skills that support executive function or how to personalize accordingly
COGx empowers educators with strategies to develop metacognitive awareness and independent learning.
Educators learn...
How to assess students’ metacognitive skills to identify strengths and areas for growth.
Techniques to help students analyze mistakes and use them to strengthen understanding and resilience.
Implement classroom strategies that teach students to monitor and adjust their learning behaviors fostering independence and deeper learning.
COGx Educator PD Outcomes
educators gained new insights into how executive function skills support learning and development.
of educators felt empowered to identify and connect specific cognitive skills to executive function behaviors.
felt confident using COGx guides to design strategies for improving executive function.
COGx empowers students with strategies to strengthen executive function and manage goal-directed behaviors.
Students learn...
About the the brain’s “CEO”, learning how executive functions like planning, organizing, and attention control guide their learning and behavior.
Writing effective, specific, and achievable goals developing strategies to stay focused and adjust as needed.
By analyzing real-world scenarios to improve time management, planning, and self-regulation building the tools to manage distractions, control impulses, and sustain attention.
After what I have learned, I will provide students with opportunities to organize and structure information in a hierarchical manner through content organization activities such as concept maps or flow charts.
