Is there a cure for the teenage brain?
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Is There a Cure for the Teenage Brain?
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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.
Teenage Brain
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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.
What emotion is this woman feeling?
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scattered? disorganized? impulsive?
frustrating!?
How could such a smart kid be so
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Hello... where is your common sense?
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Executive Skills: The brain-based skills that are required for humans to execute, or perform tasks.
Taylor, A. (2013). Executive dysfunction after brain injury. Retrieved from https://www.headway.org.uk/executive-dysfunction-after-brain-injury.aspx
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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.
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Executive Skills: The brain-based skills that are required for humans to execute, or perform tasks.
Taylor, A. (2013). Executive dysfunction after brain injury. Retrieved from https://www.headway.org.uk/executive-dysfunction-after-brain-injury.aspx
The “CEO”
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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.
What emotion do you think teens believe she
is showing?
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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.
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Executive Skills
• Response Inhibition
• Emotional Control
• Sustained Attention
• Task Initiation
• Goal-directed Persistence
• Organization
• Time Management
• Planning/Prioritizing
• Working Memory
• Metacognition
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Executive Skills Involving Doing (behavior)
• Response Inhibition
• Emotional Control
• Sustained Attention
• Task Initiation
• Goal-directed Persistence
• Organization
• Time Management
• Planning/Prioritizing
• Working Memory
• Metacognition
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Executive Skills Involving Thinking (Cognition)
• Response Inhibition
• Emotional Control
• Sustained Attention
• Task Initiation
• Goal-directed Persistence
• Organization
• Time Management
• Planning/Prioritizing
• Working Memory
• Metacognition
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Let’s figure out your EF strengths/challenges
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“At birth executive skills only exists as potential. The newborn has no actual executive skills.”
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“…Frontal lobes, and therefore executive skills will require 18 to 20 years, or even longer to develop fully.”
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“Given these factors, children cannot rely soley on their own frontal lobes to regulate behavior? !
What’s the solution?” !
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School & Class Support
• Make things visual
• Scaffold
• Use Planners
• Help with Locker Organization
• Teach study skills
• Use technology
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What could make this better for children with difficulties with Executive Functioning?
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Scaffolding• Breaking up learning into chunks
• Then providing a tool or structure for each chunk
• Scaffolding is DIFFERENT than differentiation
• Scaffolding should be done for all children
• Take “They should be able to do this” out of your vocabulary.
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Champ, Birdie. "Zone of Proximal Development." Birdie Champ: Thoughts on Education. N.p., 1 Mar. 2010. Web. 6 May 2012. <birdiechamp.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/vygotsky-levels-flat-copy.jpg>.
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It’s a Wonderful World? Crea2ng Your Very Own Utopia
Ra#onale: As we have been studying jus3ce, we have been looking at government and what happens when government structures break down. One way of dealing with the lack of order has been for individuals to break away and form their own socie3es in hope of crea3ng a “perfect” world. In conjunc3on with The Giver and our social studies unit on government, law, and social jus3ce, you will be crea3ng a mul3-‐step Utopia project.
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Some students need it broken down even
further
Provide a calendar
breakdown
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Planners
If your school does not require HW planners, you should try to
change that. Planners are essential for all learners, but are particularly effective for students with executive planning issues.
Locker Organization
• Language Arts- Black
• Math- Red
• Social Studies- Green
• Science- Blue
• Mandarin- Pink
Color-code by subject
!Provide dividers or
shelves !
Periodic locker checks
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Consider a Study Skills curriculum for
your students
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http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu
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• Make a homework plan
• List out assignments
• Make sure you have all materials
• Decide who will provide help if needed
• Estimate time needed
• Prioritize assignments
• Build in breaks
Suggestions for Parents
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Introduce the concept of work-sprints
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Homework Plan
Language Arts Social Studies Math Science
check blog check blog check blog check blog
Write Source pg. 4-6 verbs
Intro to story
Read chapter 2 in text
7.3 problems 1-30 odds
Review for test on Friday
Finish lab report due Wed.
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“As a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
!Mark Twain