What are Executive Function Skills?
Executive function skills are central to success in the classroom and beyond. You can think of them as the CEO of your brain. They allow you to do things like organize, focus, and regulate emotions. We begin developing these skills from birth, but they only fully mature in our early 20s. And for many students, especially […]
Age Appropriate Study Habits
We aren’t born with good study habits. We learn them, we practice them, and eventually they become second-nature. But how does this process start? And when? Building good study and work habits can begin as early as pre-school. One could even argue that a parent’s work ethic and attitude can rub off on children as […]
Strategies for Engaging Kids Who Struggle with Attention
For many students, focusing in school takes real effort. For students with ADHD, it’s sometimes an almost insurmountable obstacle. Now, with so many students learning from home either full-time or part-time, and with all other students working at least six feet apart from their teachers, sustaining focus and engagement on school tasks is harder than […]
The Silver Linings of an ADHD Diagnosis
Although it is not at all uncommon, an ADHD diagnosis still comes with a bit of stigma. Many people associate ADHD with challenging behavior, lack of self-control, and inability to complete tasks. But ADHD can bring with it a host of unique advantages for those who are willing to embrace the good, learn how to […]
Getting Organized with ADHD
Organization is one of the most common struggles that people with ADHD face on a day-to-day basis. It takes tremendous executive function power to organize both physical materials and information in our heads. People with ADHD struggle with their executive functions, making organization extremely difficult without specific tools to help guide them. LEARN MORE ABOUT […]
How to Expand Working Memory
Working memory is what we use to store information for short periods in order to use it to accomplish something. But our capacity for working memory is not fixed. There are ways to improve and expand it. Read on for strategies to boost working memory. First, let’s lay down some working memory basics. For those […]
Understanding ADHD and Executive Function Skills
Challenges with executive function skills go hand-in-hand with ADHD. These difficulties can impact a chid’s ability to organize resources and information, manage time and tasks, and maintain focus and attention. As a result, many kids with these issues are labeled as “lazy,” “scattered,” or a “space cadet,” when in fact they are doing the best […]
How to Teach Time Management
As students progress through the grades, they usually find themselves with more and more unstructured time. On the surface, this seems great. More free time means more time for them to finally do what they want! But once homework starts piling up, it is their responsibility to decide when they complete it, in what order, […]
What’s Your Learning Style?
The question of learning style has become a heated one in recent years. That’s because the idea of learning styles has been a part of teacher training for decades, yet there isn’t a huge amount of data to illustrate the effectiveness of using this information in the classroom. In fact, Howard Gardner, the godfather of […]
How to Teach Self-Monitoring
Self-monitoring refers to our ability to track what we are doing and how or why we are doing it. We self-monitor (or at least we should) in every setting and activity. From how we read and write, to how we engage with friends and family, self-monitoring will greatly improve our academic performance, social interactions, and […]
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