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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?
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