Understanding executive function through life experiences

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2021
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Jenks, Andrea
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Executive function (EF) is a life skill that is gained through development and practices throughout a lifetime. In this self-study, I explore my connection between EF, my teaching practice, and my experiences throughout my lifetime as a student, teacher, and mother. Through self-study of professional practice, knowledge will be gained about useful supports for adolescent EF development that can be addressed in the classroom. Personal experience and a life of learning will also play a role in the explanation of EF with reflections on childhood to the present day. Key themes identified in this study are: how strategies for time management are important to establish for students to use as their lives get increasingly busier; positive relationships with teachers have the power to build confidence and lay foundations for developing EF skills and enhancing student’s success; how family values play an important role in the development of EF from a young age and the ability to continue to create opportunity for EF to grow and be practiced into your teens.; how working memory is essential for building good EF, something that needs to exercised and used regularly in order to improve and maintain it; how a strong sense of initiation predicts and produces a positive work ethic, working with others and the ability to problem solve and how organization goes beyond management to prioritization of needs, and is supported by the use of tools that break tasks into smaller steps.
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