Executive Functioning
An umbrella term encompassing distinct but interrelated, abilities that contribute to the management of goal-directed behaviors including inhibiting, shifting, and regulating emotions; initiating; planning; organizing;and monitoring while holding goals in working memory.
What is executive functioning?
Rephrase "she is never in her seat and she always is yelling out" to be less conflictual and more neutral
What is "she is seldom in her seat and she is often yelling out"?
The year congress made the act to
What is 1975?
Learning groups that create positive interdependence through individual and group accountability.
What are cooperative learning groups?
Ways that an evaluation report can be more parent friendly.
What are reduce the use of "jargon", provide a visual for scores, meet with the parent prior to the PPT, write your report with more simple explanations, and others?
True or false - Executive functioning has anatomy (brain function or "orchestra") and behavioral separation (the conductor).
What is true? Executive Function is the orchestration of basic cognitive processes during goal oriented problem solving.
Three key elements for ALL PPT Team Members.
What are identifying student strengths and challenges, proposals for goals and objectives and proposals for services?
This law ensures that special needs students receive appropriate free public education in the least restrictive environment necessary to meet those students’ needs. It helps students receive the extra assistance they need but allows them to participate in the same activities as children without special needs whenever possible.
What is the Individual Disability Education Act or IDEA adopted in 1990?
Importance of reading partners, cooperative learning groups, reading journals passed back and forth between student and teacher, whole-class discussions, or presentation of reports.
What is reading research that shows that learning from reading comes more from writing about what you read or talking about what you have read?
If parents disagree with the team evaluations, they are eligible for this at public expense.
What is an Independent Education Evaluation or an IEE?
Research shows that normal test performance does not mean no executive function deficit. What does this mean?
What is diagnosing executive functioning skills requires looking at cold skills (in a testing situation) with hot skills (in practical situations)?
A manner of introductions of roles for team members that helps parents know the reason and function for your presence at the PPT.
What is instead of stating your title, you say what work you do with their child and what work you will be doing at the meeting this day?
The act requires schools in every state to develop routine assessments of students’ academic skills. It provides incentives for schools to demonstrate progress in students with special needs. It also allows for students to seek alternative options if schools are not meeting their academic, social or emotional needs.
What is No Child Left Behind in 2001?
Tutoring of slower or younger students by other students shows effective learning for the tutor as well as the tutee.
What is peer tutoring?
A few best practices when it comes to emails.
What are: always consider an email could end up in front of the parent or court; confirm you have the right recipient; avoid discussing multiple students in one email; use initials or "the student" if possible; avoid lengthy discussions of sensitive information; don't write or send emails when angry or frustrated.
Current research shows this to be the most effective intervention to teach executive functioning skills.
What is teaching via coaching and mentoring in the "hot"? Example - Goal-plan-do-review.
A PPT became confrontational with a few people talking over one another after parents surprised the team with unexpected requests. Name a tactic to avoid this situation.
What is communication with the parents before the meeting and creating an agenda for the meeting that includes their interests?
As of July 2018, the law only allows this to be used in emergency situations and no longer a part of a Behavior Intervention Plan.
What is seclusion?
Students measure their own learning progress toward explicit goals.
What is self-monitoring, self-teaching or "metacognitive"?
At this PPT the team must determine
if the behavior in question was caused by, or had a direct and substantial relationship to the child’s disability; or
if the behavior in question was the direct result of the district’s failure to implement the IEP.
What is a manifestation determination PPT?
Executive functions that the Brief-2 tries to capture in the "hot" day to day functioning.
What are inhibit, self-monitor, shift flexibly, modulate emotions, initiate, working memory, plan, organize, and task-monitor?
Ways PPT meetings can be a win-win negotiation for all team members.
What is being prepared and knowledgeable, willing and open to consider each other's proposals, create a problem solving atmosphere, resist making demands, offers and threats during discussions, and explore the underlying needs, hopes, fears and concern that motivate each party?
A temporary, continuously monitored separation of a student from an ongoing activity in a non-locked setting, for the purpose of calming such student or deescalating suchstudent’s behavior.
What is an exclusionary time out?
Three ways a teacher can make homework more meaningful and effective for learning.
What is grade it, comment on it, and discuss it?
A counseling approach that has some overlapping with both humanist and cognitive-behavioral approaches, this is a guiding and client centered approach that moves adolescents to adopt behaviors consistent with their values and reduce harmful or risky behaviors.
What is Motivational Interviewing?