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keep track of the EF skills students build through intentionally planned activities, ensuring that students build a variety of skills across each ALU and across the year?
Self Assessment
Self Assessment
To what extent do you:
plan instructional activities that build students' executive function skills through the structure of the activities themselves?
create opportunities for students to build EF skills and SEL competencies as they goal set, collaborate, discuss, self-monitor, and make decisions daily?
reflect upon and plan for how the structures of your LATIC will build students' executive function and SEL competencies?
Building Students’ Executive Function and SEL Skills
Executive Function: The Big Picture — View this video by Dr. Sulla. Then, reflect in your Efficacy Notebook: What do you see as your students’ strengths when it comes to the life skills connected to executive function (i.e., conscious control, engagement, collaboration, empowerment, efficacy, leadership)? What are some areas of growth? How do you think the LATIC helps grow these skills in students? Use this resource as a reference.
Read the description of the five core SEL competencies on the CASEL site, or watch this video from CASEL about social-emotional learning to build your background knowledge.
The SEL-EF Connection — Read this blog post by Dr. Sulla to understand the connection between social-emotional learning (SEL) and executive function (EF).
Social-Emotional Learning and the Executive Function That Supports It — See how the executive function skills, as defined by Dr. Nancy Sulla, support CASEL's framework for social and emotional learning.
SEL in the Student-Driven Classroom — Read this blog post to see the explicit connections between SEL competencies and the structures and strategies of LATIC.
The PBL-SEL Connection — This tool will offer just a few examples of how PBL experiences promote SEL. In the third column, decide what you might add to your repertoire to further solidify the PBL-SEL relationship.
Learn about utilizing a Student Learning Dashboard for students to monitor their own progress and set goals.
Further Resources
Further Resources
A YouTube video: All Students Can Learn with Executive Function
A YouTube video: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning - from Harvard University’s Center for the Developing Child
A YouTube video: Executive Function: The Big Picture
Student Focus Cards - Helping students reflect on how well they are focusing on their work
Task Persistence Card- Helping students tackle the challenge of persisting in a difficult task
If...Then Planning - Having students decide, in advance, how to avoid becoming distracted and off task
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