Unlocking Student Potential

Teaching Executive Function Skills in the K-8 Classroom
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4625-6553-5
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten

Reihe: The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series

Packed with ready-to-use tools, this book explains the whats, whys, and how-tos of teaching executive function (EF) skills in everyday classroom practice. Eleven specific skills are presented and their role in learning, behavior, and achievement described. The expert authors provide a menu of options for weaving each skill into instruction with students at different grade levels. The large-size book and companion website feature reproducible lessons, teacher checklists, student self-assessments, planning guides, engaging EF stories, and more. Readers also get explicit support for reflecting on and developing their own skills as EF instructors.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIver, Marcy

Dawson, Peg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: How to Use This Book
I. Unlocking Educator Potential: Decoding and Teaching Executive Function Skills
1. Executive Function Skills Explained: Unlocking the Mind
2. The Keys to Enhance Educator Expertise: Unlocking the Skills
3. Preparing to Teach Executive Function Skills: Unlocking the Conditions
II. Unlocking Student Potential: Teaching the 11 Executive Function Skills
4. Opening the Executive Function Vault: Introducing Executive Function Skills to Your Students
5. Response Inhibition: Training Your Inner Cop
6. Working Memory: Lightening the Cognitive Load
7. Emotional Control: Opening the Door to Emotional Mastery
8. Flexibility: Unlocking the Doors to Flexible Thinking
9. Sustained Attention: Harnessing Focus in the Classroom
10. Task Initiation: Breaking through the Wall of Resistance
11. Planning and Prioritizing: Solving the Planning Puzzle
12. Organization: Orchestrating Organized Environments and Minds
13. Time Management: Ticking Towards Success
14. Goal-Directed Persistence: Keeping the Spark Alive
15. Metacognition: The Master Key That Unlocks All Skills
III. Unlocking Lasting Executive Function Success: Essential Keys and Refining Practice
16. The Essential Keys for Executive Function Success
17. Sustaining Executive Function Success: Troubleshooting Mini-Guide for Continued Growth
Epilogue: Where Change Truly Begins
Appendices
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcy McIver, MS, is an educational consultant, executive function and attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) coach, Orton–Gillingham instructor, and former classroom teacher. Ms. McIver provides professional development for educators internationally, with a focus on translating the science of executive function into practical classroom approaches and tools that support learning, self-regulation, and independence. She also works directly with students with executive function challenges; ADHD; and learning differences, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia; and coaches teens and supports parents of children with ADHD. She is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Peg Dawson, EdD, is a New Hampshire-based psychologist who provides professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and the International School Psychology Association, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, among them Smart but Scattered and Smart but Scattered Teens, as well as books for professionals, including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents.