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Education Buzzwords: Executive Function

Education Buzzwords: Executive Function. Life skills for life. Let’s have a conversation. Collective thinking about executive function.

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Education Buzzwords: Executive Function

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  1. Education Buzzwords: Executive Function Life skills for life

  2. Let’s have a conversation Collective thinking about executive function

  3. Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2014). Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence. Retrieved fromwww.developingchild.harvard.edu What is executive function: Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember, and juggle multiple tasks. ***** We are not born with these skills- we have the potential to gain them. Working memory - what we hold in our minds Inhibitory control - the ability to focus on what’s relevant Mental flexibility - helps us to sustain or shift attention in response to different demands or to apply different rules in different settings.

  4. Executive Function and Brain Research Tips If you use Every Child Ready to read to help build your storytimes you’re probably used to incorporating early literacy tips. you can support executive/cognitive function by developing tips related to brain research. Here are a few examples to get you started: In the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second and brains are built over time constructed from birth into adulthood.” Think of the implications of that! by the first year, the parts of the brain that differentiate sound are becoming specialized to the language the baby has been exposed to; at the same time, the brain is already starting to lose the ability to recognize different sounds found in other languages. Center on the Developing Child (2007). The Science of Early Childhood Development (InBrief). Retrieved from www.developingchild.harvard.edu.

  5. Good News!!! • You are probably already providing programs that help develop executive function! • Early literacy and school readiness programming with memory games, play,music and movement help to build these brain functions. Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy -2018 Clel Bell Award winners • if you provide any opportunity for interactive play and movement during storytimes- you are already supporting cognitive and executive function. • Activities that are inquiry-based - that give children a chance to explore and discover, such as steam programs are helpful. See this link: https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/webinar/pdfs/brain-buildingpowerhousespresentation.pdf

  6. Brain Games There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O.B-I-N-G-O!B-I-N-G-O!B-I-N-G-O!And Bingo was his name-O!There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O.(Clap)-I-N-G-O!(Clap)-I-N-G-O!(Clap)-I-N-G-O!And Bingo was his name-O!There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O!(Clap - Clap)-N-G-O!(Clap - Clap)-N-G-O!(Clap - Clap)-N-G-O!And Bingo was his name-O!There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O.(Clap - Clap - Clap)-G-O!(Clap - Clap - Clap)-G-O!(Clap - Clap - Clap)-G-O!And Bingo was his name-O!There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O.(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)-O!(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)-O!(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)-O!And Bingo was his name-O!There was a farmer who had a dog,And Bingo was his name-O.(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)(Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap)And Bingo was his name-O! Let’s sing Bingo

  7. There was a farmer who had a dog and bingo was his name oh!B-I-N-G-OB-I-N-G-OAnd Bingo was his name ohThere was a farmer who had a dog and Bingo was his name oh!(clap)-I-N-G-O(clap)-I-N-G-O(clap)-I-N-G-O Let’s mix it up Older children can stretch their mental flexibility if we try it this way: Something like b (clap) clap g clap

  8. Something to think about: A new study from Florida State suggests that brain training games really don’t transfer to far reaching executive function. Think brain games make you smarter? Think again, researchers say: New study finds no evidence games increase overall cognitive abilities." But if your real goal is to improve cognitive function and brain games are not helping, then maybe you are better off getting aerobic exercise rather than sitting in front of the computer playing these games." ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 17, 2018 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170417095528.html

  9. So what does this mean- movement is a good idea- brain game may not be as helpful as we think in the long term but they certainly don’t hurt. Let’s have some fun!! Freeze dance! (helps first by putting movement and music in a usable context and second should be agametht a safe space to continue to practice simple directions while having fun) Complex Movement Practice: skip/balance, obstacle course etc

  10. Resources: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources https://www.zerotothree.org/early-learning Brain Building Powerhouses: Museums and Libraries Mindinthemaking.org https://www.apa.org/education/k12/brain-function.aspx

  11. Beth Vredenburg Hoboken Public Library Children’s Librarian MLIS, M.ed. Language and Literacy Education beth.vredenburg@hoboken.bccls.org

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