Executive Function: Foundations for Learning and Teaching - Softcover

Patricia W. Newhall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971329753 ISBN 13: 9780971329751

Publisher: Landmark School Outreach Program, 2014

Synopsis

Landmark's Language-Based Teaching Series provides the essential information and practical classroom resources that educators need to build students language and literacy skills. Each book provides concise explanations, mini-case studies, and online access to customizable materials for classroom use. What You ll Find in Executive Function: concise information about executive function and its relation to academic proficiency, explanations of the roles of attention, memory, emotion, motivation, and effort in learning, practical teaching strategies for enhancing executive skills, student profiles and and student comments on learning experiences, online and printable resources for classroom use, and suggestions for further reading.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia W. Newhall, M.A., M.S.Ed., is the former Associate Director of the Landmark School Outreach Program. A teacher of literature, writing, and study skills since 1987, she has taught at the middle school, high school, college and post graduate levels, and has worked in public and independent schools. In her publications, lectures, and graduate courses, she shares research about learning disabilities and differences, and the teaching strategies essential to building the skills and confidence of struggling learners. Newhall s other books include Language-Based Learning Disabilities (the first book in the Language-Based Teaching Series); Study Skills: Research-Based Teaching Strategies; and Teaching Independent Minds. She is currently working on the third book in this series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Landmark School Outreach Program
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971329753
• ISBN 13: 9780971329751
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144