Developing Executive Function to Empower Learners ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

Developing Executive Function to Empower Learners is a three-credit hour course that focuses on the correlation between student learning and the executive function skills of the brain. Strong executive function skills enhance student learning and empower students academically, personally, and professionally. Participants learn strategies and activities that develop and strengthen executive function in the areas of organization and planning; focus and attention; working memory; inhibitory control and self-regulation; self-directedness (self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying); and cognitive flexibility. Participants learn how to make thinking visible in the classroom in a way that fosters problem solving, perspective-taking, and creative cognition skills. Mind matters, and learning how to optimize the air traffic control system of the brain has a powerful impact on learning.