Executive Functioning Supports for Today’s Students
Cassie Frost
March 6, 2024
8:30-3:30
Location: Save The Bay Center, 100 Save The Bay Drive,
Providence, R.I. 02905
Register HERE.
Participants will spend the day learning about executive functioning and how deficits in this area can affect students. The session will focus on techniques and tools to help support students in the areas of attention, memory, time management, and organization. Special focus will be given to how attention skills develop and what educators can do to support students who are struggling with attention in the school setting. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the changing demands on a student’s executive functioning system in today’s classroom. Participants will make and take low-tech assistive tools for executive functioning, including visuals, folders, color coding tools, and more. High-tech tools, including Chrome extensions, iOS apps, and websites, will be demonstrated. Participants will get hands-on and collaborate s on techniques that work for a variety of student needs. Participants will leave with tools and strategies they can implement the very next day.
Learning Objectives:
- Objective 1: Participants will be able to identify and describe how executive functioning affects students in the classroom.
- Objective 2: Participants will be able to describe at least three ways assistive technology can support students who struggle with executive functioning.
- Objective 3: Participants will be able to identify at least three techniques or tools that will support each of the areas of executive functioning introduced during the training: organization, time management, attention, and memory.
Please contact TechACCESS at (401) 463-0202 or techaccess@techaccess-ri.org if you need additional information.