Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom (PDF)

A guide for helping students with weak Executive Function skills
to learn efficiently and effectively

Students with weak Executive Function skills need strong support
and specific strategies to help them learn in an efficient manner,
demonstrate what they know, and manage the daily demands of school.
This book shows teachers how to do exactly that, while also
managing the ebb and flow of their broader classroom needs. From
the author of the bestselling parenting book Late, Lost, and
Unprepared, comes a compilation of the most practical tools and
strategies, designed to be equally useful for children with EF
problems as well as all other students in the general education
classroom.

Rooted in solid research and classroom-tested experience, the
book is organized to help teachers negotiate the very fluid
challenges they face every day; educators will find strategies that
improve their classroom "flow" and reduce the stress of struggling
to teach students with EF weaknesses.

* Includes proven strategies for teachers who must address the
needs of students with Executive Function deficits

* Contains information from noted experts Joyce Cooper-Kahn, a
child psychologist and Margaret Foster, an educator and learning
specialist

* Offers ways to extend learning and support strategies beyond
the classroom

* The book's reproducible forms and handouts are available for
free download

This important book offers teachers specific strategies to help
students with EF deficits learn in an efficient manner, demonstrate
what they know, and manage the daily demands of school.