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LESSON 6: What is executive functioning and how can this skill improve educational outcomes?
Children aren't born with the ability to read and write. However, children are born with the ability to eventually learn to read and write. This is much the same as executive functioning skills, which children must develop while they're young in order to become effective learners and to manage their lives.
Executive functioning skills include: planning, focusing attention, remembering instructions, juggling tasks successfully, and impulse control. You can use the KRA to assess children's development of these skills largely through observation items. And you can do these observations in the natural settings where you already spend time with your students - meaning not just the classroom, but also in specials, on the playground, and during transitions. This will be especially helpful for the children who are just beginning to develop their executive functioning skills - when you know which skills they're lacking, you'll be able to model and teach them to your students during the kindergarten year.
Children aren't born with the ability to read and write. However, children are born with the ability to eventually learn to read and write. This is much the same as executive functioning skills, which children must develop while they're young in order to become effective learners and to manage their lives.
Executive functioning skills include: planning, focusing attention, remembering instructions, juggling tasks successfully, and impulse control. You can use the KRA to assess children's development of these skills largely through observation items. And you can do these observations in the natural settings where you already spend time with your students - meaning not just the classroom, but also in specials, on the playground, and during transitions. This will be especially helpful for the children who are just beginning to develop their executive functioning skills - when you know which skills they're lacking, you'll be able to model and teach them to your students during the kindergarten year.
Watch the video to observe what teachers say about executive functioning.
