Participants will participate in learning about executive functioning, how deficits in this area can affect students, and techniques and tools to help support students who struggle with executive functioning. Attention, memory, and organization will be reviewed and participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the changing need of these in today’s classroom. Participants will learn how to create low-tech assistive tools for executive functioning, including visuals, folders, color coding tools and more. Printable templates and files will be provided to participants. High tech tools, including Chrome extensions such as TabSnooze and OneClickTimer will be demonstrated along with iOS apps and websites for organization, memory, and attention. Participants will learn techniques for organizing the digital environment to support executive functioning. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on the use of physical tools that may be available in homes and classrooms such as voice assistants, wearable technology, and note-taking tools. Digital collaboration techniques will be used to allow participants to share techniques that work for a variety of student needs.
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