15-Minute Focus: Executive Function: Strategies to Build Underdeveloped Skills, Maximize Learning, and Unlock Potential

Are you working with students who:

• Are challenged by organization, transitions, and meeting deadlines?
• Find it difficult to focus, start tasks, and remember what they need to do?
• Have trouble self-monitoring and keeping their emotions and impulses in check?

Many students lack strong executive function, the mental processes that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. But fear not! 15-Minute Focus: Executive Function was written with the brain in mind and equips you with the knowledge and tools to:

• Clarify Executive Function: Gain a clear understanding of twelve crucial skills and their impact on student success.
• Identify Struggles: Discover the connection between emotion and learning and how to recognize signs of stress and underdeveloped executive function.
• Empower Students: Learn practical strategies and interventions to decrease stress and develop executive function in "all kinds of minds."
• Unlock Potential: Help your students boost their productivity, academic success, behavior, social skills, and autonomy.

This transformative guide is your resource for:

• Evidence-Based Practices: Backed by research, these life-changing strategies appeal to students of all ages.
• Actionable Advice: Learn simple tips and quick techniques you can implement immediately in your classroom, home, counseling session, and life.
• Downloads and Reproducible Handouts: Make your job easier by helping students stress less, learn more, and get things done!

Stop wondering why your students struggle. Start empowering them to thrive!

Author: Noel Foy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Published: 01/30/2025
Series: 15-Minute Focus
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9781953945938