ED 5409 - Developing Executive Function to Empower Learners

Credits: 3

Explore the correlation between student learning and the executive function skills of the brain. Mind matters, and strong executive function skills enhance student learning and empower students throughout their academic and professional lives. Learn how to develop and strengthen executive function in the areas of organization and planning, focus and attention, working memory, effort and resilience, cognitive flexibility, self-directedness, and inhibitory control. Classroom-applicable strategies are presented in a content-oriented manner to help you strengthen executive function skills in all learners.

Lecture: 3