Brain Development and School: Practical Classroom Strategies to Help Pupils Develop Executive Function

ISBN-13: 9781138494916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 116 str.

Pat Guy

Opis

This book helps teachers understand and identify weaknesses in executive function and offers an extensive range of practical strategies for personalised support in the inclusive mainstream classroom.

Recenzje

"Theory meets practical advice in this book featuring techniques and approaches to enhancing the evolving mind. Packed with useful tips that are grounded in theory, it examines how to support aspects of children’s executive functioning that can affect their school life, including self-control, memory, metacognition, organisation, motivation, self-regulation and focus." - educate Magazine (National Education Union)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. What is Executive Functioning? Chapter 2. Who is at risk and why Chapter 3. Action: an individual’s ability to monitor and regulate their activity Chapter 4. Activation: the organisation of tasks Chapter 5. Effort: the pupil’s ability to regulate and sustain their effort and motivation Chapter 6. Emotion: managing frustration and modulating feelings Chapter 7. Focus: finding, sustaining, and shifting attention as required Chapter 8. Memory: using working memory and accessing recall Chapter 9. Child development: formal learning, play, risk taking and physical exercise Chapter 10. Self-assessment questionnaire

O autorze

Pat Guy teaches in Eton College’s Learning Centre, UK, and is a Specialist Member sitting on SENDIST Tribunals at HM Courts. She is the author of Keeping Minds Happy and Healthy and Transforming Reading Skills in the Secondary School with Routledge.