Executive Functioning: What You Need to Know to Help Your Student Grow!

Guests: Dr. J’Aime Balogh, Jenitta Eskew, and Nena Graham

 

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Executive Functioning - are all of the cognitive skills necessary to regulate your thinking, feelings/emotions, and behaviors to reach a goal.

 

Executive Functioning skills are necessary for all of the other cognitive functions - these are the primary functions that make up what we call “executive functioning”:

• Memory
• Attention
• Motor Skills
• Verbalizing
• Visualizing
• Completing Learning Tasks

 

Executive functioning skills include

• Task initiation - starting and stopping tasks
• Response inhibition - keeping yourself from responding impulsively
• Focus - how to stay on task and not get distracted
• Time management - planning good use of your time and avoiding procrastination
• Working memory - holding information in your mind long enough to do something with it
• Flexibility - being able to shift ideas and plans
• Self-regulation - being able to reflect on your actions and make changes
• Emotional self-control - managing your emotions and reflecting on your emotions
• Task completion - sustaining levels of task and attention to complete a task

Special shout out to Jared Wood for allowing us to use his music - check him out at JaredWoodMusic!