1. Know your child's strengths and weaknesses.
2. Listen to your children and make sure they listen to you.
3. Don't give away an answer to a problem your child is trying to solve.
4. Ask leading questions that will guide your child to the right answer.
5. Teach your child to stop, think, plan and do, before they begin a task.
One mom called up and said," I was told my son has executive functioning issues. Are you kidding me, he's 9 years old! He doesn't need to run a corporation! " I understood her frustration, executive functioning is being used to describe many students who are experiencing trouble in school. Upon further examination, her son had some significant visual processing issues. We will see how he does with his new glasses and some vision therapy and then revisit the executive functioning difficulties he was having.
I gave a presentation at a school this week emphasizing the need for students to consider themselves as learners. Being a learner means being actively engaged in the process of learning. It can be a way of thinking about themselves. "I am a learner. I like to learn new things." Active engagement in the learning process will allow students to absorb more information and take control over their learning process. This, then, can help build executive functioning skills.
Metacognition, thinking about your thinking, is another key tool to help build executive functioning skills. Metacognitive prompts such as: STOP, THINK, PLAN, DO, CHECK can be used to help remind students to take time to consider what they are doing, why they are doing it, and how they should do it.
Do you want to learn more about executive functioning? http://www.kandmcenter.com/Executive_Functioning.html
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