5 Week Intensive Parent Seminar
Fostering Independent Task Completion
How to Teach Executive Function Skills
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This series of weekly seminars will take place in a small group setting
and allow for some individual attention while still covering all the
information on the topic. Attendees can better understand the facts
and methods of fostering effective independent thinking with
opportunities to practice related strategies through case studies and
guided examples. This hands on approach and immersion in the topic
of how to create an executive function culture in your household will
assure you move towards a stronger and more effective parenting
style. This seminar is designed to involve you in the learning process.
The complexities of the executive function skills will be learned
through direct instruction, thoughtful dialogue and guided practice.
Course Agenda:
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February 23rd:
Executive Function Skills: A Functional Understanding
Moving past the text book definition: A functional explanation of the executive function skills will be
presented such that parents can, in those critical moments of parenting, quickly identify behaviors
associated with the various component/s of the executive system.
March 2nd:
Self Regulation: Thinking and Planning Ahead
Self Regulation Skills include: goal directed behaviors, devising plans to achieve goals, using self
talk, knowing the rules, controlling impulses and emotions to complete a task successfully.
Practical strategies for teaching children forethought, awareness skills and how to "know the goal"
will be introduced.
March 9th:
Self Regulation- Part 2: Avoid the Prosthetic Frontal Lobe Trap: How to Teach your Child
Self-Talk and Emotional Control
How to teach your child to have independent, automatic self regulation through self talk so they
can "guide themselves" through tasks and or "talk themselves" through the discomfort associated
with unexpected changes.
Beyond the Clock
Teaching your child how to sense the passage of time, change and maintain their pace, self
initiate on tasks and also stop performing a task when they need to move on to the next task of
higher priority.
March 16th:
Closing the Homework Circle
Concrete strategies to help your child manage their time and materials for successfully completing
nightly homework assignments and long term projects. Practical strategies to help with the
initiation of difficult assignments and for ensuring work is returned in a timely manner.
March 23rd:
Material Management
Functional strategies to help students think in an organized way and then self initiate and manage
their clothes, backpack, papers and personal belongings.
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Event Info
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 9-11:00am
Cost: $500.00
Place: ALoft Hotel
727 Marrett Road - A
Lexington, MA 02421
Phone: 781-761-1700
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