Target Audience: k-12 administrators, educational assistants, support staff, instructional leaders and teachers are encouraged to attend.
Join Rae-Anne Kerr, Jill Northwood and Jana Zalmanowitz, speech-language pathologists, to learn about how executive functioning impacts your students. Come away with low-to-no-prep strategies you can implement to build these foundational skills. Reframe how you understand diverse learners from struggling with specific subjects, to seeing how incorporating executive functioning training increases student ability to learn and gain independence in all areas of the classroom.
Session 1: Get acquainted with what skills are included in “executive functioning” and start to view your students through this lens. Delve deeper into two of the most important skills of attention and perception. Leave with a better understanding of why students in your classroom may be struggling with these skills and actionable strategies you can implement to support them.
Session 2: Build on your executive functioning knowledge by tackling the skills of verbal and nonverbal working memory. Learn to spot the signs students require support in these areas and practical, universal activities you can implement to target them.
Session 3: Take the strategies covered in previous sessions and learn how they can be applied to the final skill covered in this series: inhibition. Come away with activities to foster inhibition skills in your students so you can support them in learning effectively in a group setting.
Uncovering Potential is a collective of speech-language pathologists who are dedicated to inspiring adults and making life easier through engaging education initiatives. We met working in busy classrooms at a Calgary school board. Feeling the need to make a bigger impact, we decided to collaborate and bring more awareness and education to teachers, parents and professionals about executive functioning. It is our mission to empower adults with tools to uncover the potential in themselves and the kids they support.