Summer Institute for Authentic Learning and Leadership

Executive functioning skills (EFS) are the building blocks to a successful person, and yet how purposeful are we in teaching these skills? When a student lacks focus, do we give them strategies for being more focused or do we simply tell them to be more focused? If a student is poor at organization, are we explicitly showing them what well organized looks like? As teachers, especially of the gifted, we need to be overt in teaching these strategies and make students aware of their own weaknesses and potential workarounds for these. EFS are skills that transcend the classroom because they are skills people will be using for the rest of their lives, no matter what line of work they go into. In this lab/workshop, learn about the core 10 EFS, how you can use micro-skills to build student capacity, and how you can intentionally teach these strategies to students.

SESSION REPEATED JULY 16, 9:55 am - 10:50 am, W2103

This session qualifies for Gifted PD hours.