The Executive Functioning System (Part 1) - The Air Traffic Control Centre of the Brain
About this episode
Our executive functioning system is a set of cognitive processes that allow us to independently engage and interact in our world and, for our school aged kids, in the classroom.
Key Take Aways
- A quick discussion of Monotropism.
- Exploration of the Executive Functioning System as a set of cognitive processes.
- Introduction to three core processes: Working Memory, Flexibility, and Impulse Control.
- Six of the key executive functioning skills: Time Management, Task Initiation, Emotional Regulation, Organisation, Planning, and Self-Reflection.
- Impact of cognitive and sensory inputs on executive functioning performance.
- Examples of how different executive functioning challenges might manifest in students’ classroom behaviors.
- Prefrontal cortex development and its role in executive functioning.
- Neurodivergent students' unique executive functioning challenges.
- Emphasis on understanding, connection, and collaboration over traditional behaviour management strategies.
The week's Recommendations
- Dr Ross Green's Lives in the Balance Website
- Harvard's Centre for the Developing Child Executive Functioning Resources
- Tera Sumpter’s book The Seeds of Learning: A Cognitive Processing Model for Speech, Language, Literacy, and Executive Functioning.
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