Brain Development and School offers a range of practical classroom strategies to help pupils develop their executive function. Packed with useful tips that are grounded in theory, it examines how to support aspects of children-s executive functioning that can affect their school life; including self-control, memory, metacognition, organisation, motivation, self-regulation and focus.
Relevant for pupils in the primary and secondary school, the book focuses on ways of improving children-s emotional and intellectual development. It includes:
- Discussion of what executive functioning is and the different factors that might affect a child-s executive functioning
- Ways that executive functioning weaknesses show themselves in school
- Support strategies for teachers and advice for pupils to improve specific areas of executive functioning
- Manageable solutions and modifications that can be applied within the ma
