Please note that each purchase for this executive functioning coaching course is for a single practitioner, teacher, or family. Group or institutional discounts are available by contacting Dr. Warren:
Dr. Warren's approach to teaching executive functions is a highly structured and concrete process that breaks cognitive processing into manageable skill sets. Through explicit, direct, systematic, and multisensory instruction, individuals learn to:
Develop self-awareness and regulate emotions
Encode and retrieve information into and out of long-term memory
Inhibit distractions and focus attention
Shift tasks and perspectives
Apply active listening skills
Subsequently, students learn how to build on these core aptitudes so they can plan and manage their time, organize materials, and conduct other higher-level processing skills. Direct applications help students learn structured study habits, lifestyle hacks, and memory strategies that optimize capabilities and academic potential.
Executive functioning (EF) continues to be a growing topic of interest and with students now being recognized as having EF problems or deficits, many schools and their teachers are scrambling to meet the needs of this increasingly recognized population of learners. As a result, a new question is emerging in education. Should teachers instruct executive functioning skills (implement executive function coaching) and help students learn how to manage and control their own minds and emotions?
Research now shows that “executive functioning skills are crucial building blocks for the early development of both cognitive and social capacities” and they are vital to early math and literacy skills (Early Experiences Shape Executive Function, n.d.-a, p. 3; (Foundations of Mathematics and Literacy: The Role of Executive Functioning Components). Therefore, what’s needed now is academic resources to help teachers develop this important skill. What’s more, many teachers need support, training, and materials because when students exhibit weak executive function skills during a lesson, the whole class suffers. Instructional time is continually interrupted and sidetracked and teachers now report that this is a common source of anxiety, discouragement, and burnout (Brouwers & Tomic, 2000). Clearly, many children, adolescents, and even adults need to be taught EF skills for improved cognitive functioning, behavior, focus, emotional control, and social interaction.
What is Executive Functioning?
One can glean a general understanding of executive functioning, simply by reversing the two words to a functioning executive. It is the part of the brain that consciously exercises administrative or managerial control. Executive Functioning (EF) is the control center of the brain and it resides in the frontal lobes located directly behind the forehead. The main purpose of EF is to communicate with and coordinate goal-directed activities with other parts of the brain.
What Metaphor Can Best Describes EF?
Some like to use the metaphor of an air traffic controller to describe the duties of EF (InBrief: Executive function, 2021, Early experiences shape executive function, 2021, Hodgkinson & Parks, 2016). However, I prefer comparing EF to a conscious conductor that directs a multisensory orchestra of cognitive processes. Like a maestro or well-respected music director, EF unifies the different instruments of the brain, sets a tempo, executes plans, listens critically, shapes a composition, uses the senses to interpret the surroundings, and controls one’s pacing of thoughts. When EF is well conducted, the result is a united symphony of consciousness.
Why This Course?
This course was created to provide the training and tools so teachers, practitioners, and parents can offer step-by-step, executive functioning coaching and study skills training. The resources can be used by learners on a one-to-one basis or with a whole classroom of students. The course will continue to grow and participants are encouraged to share their feedback, ideas, and wishes.
References are available in the course.
Cartoon-like Images and Videos Make Lessons Fun and Memorable
The images below help to illustrate the variety of age-appropriate materials from elementary school to college and beyond. Students receive black and white images of the illustrations and they can color and annotate the images as they listen to a lesson. We can't strengthen skills we don't understand. Therefore, an important part of the program is educating students about executive functions, so they can learn how to take control and develop this vital skill.
If you would like to earn an executive functioning coach certificate, you can submit an assignment/evaluation to Dr. Warren after you have completed the course and used the content with at least 3 students.
A Special Gift
🎬 Why Executive Functioning? START HERE
Thoughts on Executive Functioning (for teachers, professionals, and parents)
How to Use This Course
🎥 Executive Functioning: The Internal and External Impact (for teachers, professionals, and parents)
🎤 Podcasts on Executive Functioning with Dr. Erica Warren and Darius Namdaran
InBrief: Executive Function Skills for Life and Learning: By The Center of the Developing Child: Harvard University
🎥 An introduction to Executive Functioning (for teachers, professionals, parents, and older students)
🎥 Executive Functions: What is That? (for students of any age)
🎥 The Symptoms and Myths of Executive Functioning Challenges (for teachers, professionals, parents, and students)
🎥 Higher Level Executive Functions: What is That? (for students of any age)
🎥 More About Working Memory: A Deeper Dive
🎥 More About Inhibitory Control: A Deeper Dive (for teachers, professionals, parents, and students)
🎥 More About Cognitive Flexibility: A Deeper Dive (for teachers, professionals, parents, and students)
🖐🏾 Executive Functions What is That Elementary Comics and Scripts Lesson (student handout +)
🖐🏾 Executive Functions What is That Secondary Comics and Scripts Lesson (student handout +)
🖐🏾 Executive Functions Color Activity - Elementary (student handout)
🖐🏾 Executive Functions Coloring Activity - Secondary+ (student handout)
🔎 Executive Functioning What is That Elementary Student Assessment
🔎 Executive Functioning What is That Secondary Student Assessment
Introduction: Why Executive Functioning Instruction?
🔍 Assessing my Study Habits: Inactive, Passive, or Active (Student Assessment)
🖐🏾 What Do Active Learners Look Like? (Student Handout)
🎥 Manage Your Mind Video
🔎 Manage Your Mind Assessment - post lesson (student assessment)
🖐🏾 Manage Your Mind Activity (Student Handout) - post lesson
🔎 Study Skills Assessment for Late Elementary - Secondary +
🎥 Finding the Best Study Approach Video
🖐🏾 Define Your Study Approach (Student Handout) - post lesson
🎥 Spaced Repetition A Study Approach
🖐🏾 Spaced Repetition: My Approach and Plan (Student Handout) - post lesson
References on Spaces Repetition
🎥 Getting Ready for Homework
🖐🏾 Improve Your Study Environment (Student Handout) - post lesson
🖐🏾 Selecting Healthy Snacks (Student Handout) - post lesson
🖐🏾 Keeping My Space Tidy and Organized (Student Handout) - post lesson
🖐🏾 Managing My Worries (Student Handout) - post lesson
🔍 Memory Baseline-Growth Assessment
🎥 An Introduction to Memory Strategies
🎥 Visualization and Memory
🎥 Hooking Memory Strategy
📊 DIY Presentation: Hooking Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🎥 Rhymes to Remember Memory Strategy
📊 DIY Presentation: Rhymes to Remember Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🎥 Chain Linking Memory Strategy
📊 DIY Presentation: Chain Linking Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🎥 Memory Strategies Acronyms and Acrostics
📊 DIY Presentation: Acronyms and Acrostics Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🎥 Associations and The Pegword Method
📊 DIY Presentation: Associations and the Pegword Method Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🎥 Memory Palaces or the Method of Loci for Memory
📊 DIY Presentation: Memory Palaces or the Method of Loci Memory Strategy (also available as an interactive video)
🖐🏾 Managing Memory Strategies (Student Handout) - post lesson
🎥 Using the Time Management and Test Prep Handouts
🖐🏾 Time Management and Test Prep Handouts (Student Handout) - post lesson
🎥 Notetaking Strategies for Students
📊 DIY Presentation: Note Taking Strategy Presentation (also available as a video).pdf
🎥 Notetaking Strategies: A Comprehensive Approach for Teachers (Interview with Darius Namdaran)
🖐🏾 Choosing My Notetaking Approach (Student Handout) - post lesson
GoodNotes vs. Notability & OneNotes vs. Evernote: Visual Comparisons
Other Great Notetaking Resources
🎥 What Can Your Brain Do? (for teachers, professionals, and parents as well as 5th grade and above)
🎥 Integrate the Brain Activity (for all students)
🎥 Video Based Breathing Exercise for students (for all students)
🖐🏾 Sample Breath Handouts from Dr. Warren's Multisensory Brain Break Meditations (for elementary and middle school students)
🎥 The Amygdala: Tips and Tricks (for teachers, professionals, and parents as well as 3rd grade and above)
🎥 The Four Breaths that Can Improve our brain (Elementary and Middle School)
🎥 Strategies to Manage the Mind
🎥 Take Control with Your Inner Voice (for all students)
🎥 Visualization for Improved Learning
🎥 Using the Getting Organized Handouts
🖐🏾 Getting Organized Handouts (Student Handout)
List of Resources That Help to Develop Executive Functioning Skills
Course References
Assignment/Evaluation
8/22/22 Zoom with Dr. Warren
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Upon completion of the course and submitting an assignment, you can receive an "executive functioning coach" course completion certificate.
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Yes, Dr. Warren will be offering at least one free Zoom for the participants of the course each calendar year. If you miss this opportunity, the Zoom call will be recorded and added to the course.
The course was designed for anyone that wants to offer executive functioning coaching and study skills training. There are introductory videos for teachers, professionals, and parents. Then the rest of the course offers videos, presentations, assessments, and handouts that should be reviewed. These resources can then be used directly with students in a one-to-one situation or as a group/class.
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Read MoreAs a certified dyslexia tutor, I daily pour myself into the task of providing excellent remediation for my students. I happened upon this course recently after watching Dr. Warren speak at an Orton-Gillingham conference. Dr. Warren's Executive Functioning Course has revolutionized my dyslexia tutoring! I now understand why so many of my students struggle in the areas of Executive Functioning, and Dr. Warren provides not only a well-organized approach to understanding this complex issue, but she also provides practical activities and games that my students (and I) absolutely love! My students beg for the activities, and they never want our tutoring sessions to end. I am reaching out to friends and colleagues in the field of dyslexia and telling them that they must take this course so we can provide absolutely everything our students need to be successful. Thank you, Dr. Warren, for shining a light on this challenging area that affects so many of our precious students. I will be forever grateful that I found you and this course! Stephanie Doshier
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