From "the book" and real life...

As a special educator who teaches students with--what I understand very incompletely to date-- "executive functioning" issues, and as a parent of a now grown child who had these for sure, I am eager to learn what I can to intervene as early as possible or at least to help students compensate as soon as they can manage to counter their "executive funk." I am not positive what the actual definition of "funk" is either, but I am sure I see it daily as students go round and round in a seemingly never ending flurry of activity or nonactivity that almost always yields very little on paper along with a kind of blustering frustration with whatever has been inadvertently left undone. The book I am reading and will be reacting to and reporting on through this blog to assist me in developing as a professional in the field is Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom by Lynn Meltzer copyright 2010, part of the What Works for Special Needs Learners series , Guildford Press New York. The "real lives" I'll be referring to anonymously is my own and those of the high school students struggling (whether they know it or not, yet) to make their learning lives more effective.
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