- PMD: 5,6
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Session 2: Promoting Social and Emotional Development
- Live Chat:
(Posters available on demand at any time during the convention week and for sixty days thereafter.)
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- develop an understanding of what executive function is.
- learn about feasible, evidence-based strategies under all three tiers aimed to foster executive function skills.
- develop an effective method to support and promote these skills in school.
Description
Targeting executive function skills within schools is important, as executive function skills play an imperative role in student’s academic, social–emotional, and behavioral functioning. Using the multitiered system of supports (MTSS) framework, evidence-based supports and interventions will be proposed under the three tiers to provide school psychologists with guidance in developing an effective method to support and promote the development of executive function skills among school-aged children with and without disabilities.
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Presenter(s)
Anaiza Valladolid, Savanna School District
