Growing Executive Function: Empowering Secondary Students with Skills for Lifelong Success (Executive Function Made Easy for Teachers) - Paperback

by Sarah Kesty (Author)

Author and educator Sarah Kesty offers educators practical tools to teach executive function skills--such as planning, time management, and organization--through classroom strategies, structured lessons, and academic coaching. By integrating these skills into daily routines, teachers can reduce classroom frustration while empowering students to develop self-awareness, responsibility, independence, and ownership of their learning behaviors through practical strategies and reflective exercises.

Grades 6-12 teachers can use this book to:

• Understand integral facets of executive function and its impacts on student learning
• Master effective lesson plan structure to instill core executive function skills
• Engage in academic coaching conversations to build students' skills and self-awareness
• Adopt strategies to encourage executive function for students with diverse learning needs
• Develop support systems for students struggling with executive function development

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101
Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function-Empowered Classroom
Chapter 3: Teaching Executive Function Skills
Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching
Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits
Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Index