All Things Brain
Teach those EF Skills
Executive Function Definitions
Executive Function Definitions Con't.
Memory
100
Frontal Lobe
Where are executive functions located?
100
Modeling
What is a good way to help students learn executive functioning skills?
100
Initiate
What is the ability to start a task?
100
Emotional Control
What is the ability to handle frustrating situations or difficult tasks?
100
Five
What is the number of new pieces of information that can be given to an 11 year old at one time?
200
25
What is the age that executive functions are fully developed?
200
Practice
What is something that students need to do in order to develop their executive functions?
200
Attention
What is the ability to sustain attention to tasks that are not high interest?
200
Inhibition
What is the ability to control impulses and modulate one's own behavior?
200
93%-97%
What is the number of known words that should be in a passage for optimum comprehension?
300
Myelination
What is the process through which executive functions develop?
300
Constant Feedback
What is something that students need in order to develop their EF's?
300
Working Memory
What is the ability to hold information in the mind in order to complete a task?
300
Self-Monitor
What is the ability to check work and keep track of one's behavior and goals?
300
35
What is number of repetitions that a student with average cognition needs in order to transfer that information to long term memory?
400

What is the term for controlling your feelings? 

What is emotional control 

400

What is the executive functioning skill that requires a person to adjust their situations? 

What is flexibility? 

400

What skill requires a person to estimate how much time they have in order to get something done

What is time management? 
400

What is the skill that requires someone to start a project and finish within the required time? 

What is task initiation? 

400

What is the executive functioning skills that requires a person to gather information and put it in an orderly manner? 

What is organization? 

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