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PART I. UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE FUNCTION: THE CHALLENGE FOR 21ST-CENTURY TEACHERS |
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Understanding, Assessing, and Teaching Executive Function Processes: The Why, What, and How |
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What Is Executive Function, and How Do Executive Function Processes Affect Academic Performance? |
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Why Are Executive Function Processes So Important? |
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How Can Teachers Begin to Understand Students' Executive Function Strengths and Weaknesses? |
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How Can Teachers Informally Assess Executive Function? |
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How Can Teachers Address the Needs of Students with Executive Function Weaknesses? |
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How Can Core Strategies Be Taught across Tasks, Content Areas, and Grades? |
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Drive to Thrive: A Model Program for Integrating Strategies into the Daily Classroom Routine |
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24 | (3) |
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Creating a Classroomwide Executive Function Culture That Fosters Strategy Use, Motivation, and Resilience |
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Why Should Instruction in Executive Function Strategies Be Integrated into the Classroom Curriculum? |
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How Can Executive Function Strategies Be Taught in the Classroom? |
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What Executive Function Strategies Should Be Embedded in the Curriculum across Subject and Content Areas? |
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PART II. SCAFFOLDING EXECUTIVE FUNCTION PROCESSES INTO THE CURRICULUM CONTENT |
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Goal Setting, Planning, and Prioritizing: The Foundations of Effective Learning |
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Why Should We Teach Strategies for Goal Setting, Planning, and Prioritizing? |
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Why Should We Teach Explicit Strategies for Goal Setting? |
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What Foundational Processes Are Needed for Successful Goal Setting? |
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How Should Strategies for Goal Setting Be Taught? |
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Why Is It Important to Teach Explicit Strategies for Planning and Prioritizing? |
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What Foundational Processes Are Necessary for Planning and Prioritizing? |
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How Should Strategies Be Taught for Planning and Prioritizing? |
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Organizing: The Heart of Efficient and Successful Learning |
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Why Is It Important to Teach Organizational Strategies Systematically? |
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What Foundational Skills Are Involved in Acquiring Organizational Strategies? |
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How Should Organizational Strategies Be Taught? |
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What Specific Organizational Strategies Should Be Taught Explicitly? |
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Remembering: Teaching Students How to Retain and Mentally Manipulate Information |
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Why Is Memory So Important for the Learning Process? |
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How Can We Teach Students Strategies to Improve Their Memory? |
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What Executive Function Strategies Can Be Taught to Help Students Remember Needed Information in School? |
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Shifting and Flexible Problem Solving: The Anchors for Academic Success |
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Why Is Cognitive Flexibility So Important across Grades and Academic Domains? |
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How Should We Teach Students to Think Flexibly and to Shift Mindsets? |
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What Strategies Should We Teach to Promote Students' Cognitive Flexibility? |
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Self-Monitoring and Self-Checking: The Cornerstones of Independent Learning |
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Why Are Self-Monitoring and Self-Correcting So Important? |
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How Can We Teach Students to Use Self-Monitoring and Self-Checking Strategies? |
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What Specific Strategies Should Be Taught to Help Students Self-Monitor and Self-Check Systematically? |
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Emotional Self-Regulation: A Critical Component of Executive Function |
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Why Is Emotional Regulation So Crucial for Academic Success? |
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What Is Emotional Regulation? |
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How Can We Help Students to Develop Strategies for Self-Regulating Their Emotions? |
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How Can We Take a Proactive Approach to Helping Students with Their Emotions? |
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How Can Teachers Be Effective When Students Become Emotionally Distraught? |
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What Are Some General Strategies for Helping Anxious Students to Calm Themselves? |
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PART III. CASE STUDIES: ADDRESSING EXECUTIVE FUNCTION WEAKNESSES ACROSS THE GRADES |
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Chris, 11-Year-Old Fifth Grader: Executive Function Weaknesses That Affect Organizing, Prioritizing, Planning, Shifting |
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Jenny, 13-Year-Old Seventh Grader: Executive Function Weaknesses That Affect Working Memory, Organizing, Planning, Prioritizing |
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Lucy, 15-Year-Old 10th Grader: Executive Function Weaknesses That Affect Working Memory, Organizing, Self-Monitoring, Self-Checking |
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David, 17-Year-Old 12th Grader: Executive Function Weaknesses That Affect Organizing, Planning, Prioritizing |
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Appendix. Reproducibles For The Classroom |
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Appendix 1. Individual Goal Plan |
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Appendix 2. Individual Goal-Planning Worksheet |
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Appendix 3. Time Estimation Worksheet |
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Appendix 4. Strategy Reflection Sheet |
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Appendix 5. Sorting and Categorizing in the Content Areas: How Can We Group Them? |
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Appendix 6. Character Traits Sheet |
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Appendix 7. Crazy Phrase Strategy Template for Remembering |
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Appendix 8. Chapter Summary Organizer |
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Appendix 9. KNOW Strategy Template for Doing Word Problems |
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Appendix 10. RAPS Strategy Template for Breaking Down Parts of a Word Problem |
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Appendix 11. How Do the Details Support the Main Idea? |
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Appendix 12. Guide for Making Revisions to a Five-Paragraph Essay |
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Appendix 13. Personalized Checking Cards for Tests |
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References |
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Index |
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