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Executive Function Education: From Theory to Practice
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Executive Function Education: From Theory to Practice
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Executive Function Education: From Theory to Practice
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This groundbreaking volume, now revised and updated, has given thousands of educators and clinicians a deeper understanding of executive function (EF) processes in typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The book elucidates how PreK–12 students develop such key capacities as goal setting, organization, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and self-monitoring. Leading experts in education, neuroscience, and psychology explore the links between EF and academic performance and present practical applications for assessment and instruction. Exemplary practices for supporting students with EF difficulties in particular content areasreading, writing, and mathare reviewed.
New to This Edition
*Updated throughout with a decade's worth of significant advances in research, theory, and educational best practices.
*Chapter on early childhood.
*Chapter on embedding EF strategies in the curriculum
*Expanded coverage of readingchapters on recent fMRI research findings; working memory and reading; and self-regulation and reading comprehension.
See also Meltzer's authored book
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom
, which provides easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids.
New to This Edition
*Updated throughout with a decade's worth of significant advances in research, theory, and educational best practices.
*Chapter on early childhood.
*Chapter on embedding EF strategies in the curriculum
*Expanded coverage of readingchapters on recent fMRI research findings; working memory and reading; and self-regulation and reading comprehension.
See also Meltzer's authored book
Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom
, which provides easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids.