2024-2025 Catalog

 

EDCS-514 Developing Executive Function to Empower Learners

This course focuses on 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. Participants 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 that educators can use to strengthen executive function skills in all learners.

Credits

3
Indiana Weselayan