Executive Skills

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Executive Skills Executive Skills A Practical Guide A Practical Guide

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slides from the Seminar: Engaged,Motivated and Dynamic Students (Using Executive Function Skills to Overcome Underachievement) given by Jenny V. Tapales, M.Ed Faculty, De LaSalle University, Educational Leadership &ManagementDepartment – College of Education; Director, Ed Link Foundation; Education Specialist Date: August 17, 2013 Venue: David Consunji Room, Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman QC

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Page 1: Executive Skills

Executive SkillsExecutive Skills

A Practical GuideA Practical Guide

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Executive SkillsExecutive Skills

Conductor of an orchestraConductor of an orchestra

Channel selector of TVChannel selector of TV Chairman of the BoardChairman of the Board

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Role of Executive SkillsRole of Executive Skills

Meet challengesMeet challenges Accomplish goalsAccomplish goals Help decide which tasks to pay Help decide which tasks to pay

attention to, to performattention to, to perform Organize behavior to delay Organize behavior to delay

gratificationgratification SIMPLY: SIMPLY: TO REGULATE TO REGULATE

BEHAVIORBEHAVIOR

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Role of Executive SkillsRole of Executive Skills

Thinking skills Thinking skills to achieve goals to achieve goals and problem and problem solvesolve PlanningPlanning OrganizationOrganization Time Time

managementmanagement Working Working

memorymemory MetacognitionMetacognition

Guiding skills to Guiding skills to modify behaviormodify behavior Response Response

inhibitioninhibition Self-regulation Self-regulation

of affectof affect Task initiationTask initiation FlexibiltyFlexibilty Goal directed Goal directed

persistencepersistence

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

Select and achieve goalsSelect and achieve goals

Develop problem solutionsDevelop problem solutions

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

Planning Planning

- the ability to create a roadmap to - the ability to create a roadmap to reach a goal or complete a taskreach a goal or complete a task

- deciding what is important to - deciding what is important to focus on (saliency determination) focus on (saliency determination)

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

OrganizationOrganization The ability to arrange or place The ability to arrange or place

things according to a systemthings according to a system

vs

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

Time managementTime management The capacity to estimate:The capacity to estimate:

How much time you haveHow much time you have How to allocate the time you haveHow to allocate the time you have How to stay with in time limits and How to stay with in time limits and

meet deadlinesmeet deadlines

Instilling that aSense of timeIs important!

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

Working memoryWorking memory Ability to hold information in the Ability to hold information in the

mind while performing complex mind while performing complex taskstasks

Ability to apply previous learning Ability to apply previous learning to the lesson at hand for problem to the lesson at hand for problem solvingsolving

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills

MetacognitionMetacognition The ability observe yourself in a The ability observe yourself in a

situationsituation Self-monitoringSelf-monitoring

Am I paying attention?Working too fast? Slow?

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Modifies your behavior to be Modifies your behavior to be able to meet the goalsable to meet the goals

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Response inhibitionResponse inhibition Capacity to think before you actCapacity to think before you act Evaluating how a behavior may Evaluating how a behavior may

impact a situationimpact a situation

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Self-regulation of affectSelf-regulation of affect The ability to manage emotions in The ability to manage emotions in

order to achieve goals, complete order to achieve goals, complete tasks, control or direct the tasks, control or direct the behaviorbehavior

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Task initiationTask initiation The ability to start a task with out The ability to start a task with out

undue procrastinationundue procrastination

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Flexibility Flexibility The ability to revise in the face of The ability to revise in the face of

obstacles, new information, obstacles, new information, mistakesmistakes

Being adaptable to changing Being adaptable to changing conditionsconditions

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Role of Executive Guiding Role of Executive Guiding SkillsSkills

Goal-directed persistenceGoal-directed persistence Capacity to follow through to the Capacity to follow through to the

completion of a goal and not to be completion of a goal and not to be put off by competing interests and put off by competing interests and other demandsother demands

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Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking and Guiding Skillsand Guiding Skills

Not so much for day-to-day Not so much for day-to-day habits and routineshabits and routines

To help you face new To help you face new challenges and resolve to challenges and resolve to pursue a goalpursue a goal

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Developmental Tasks Developmental Tasks Requiring Executive SkillsRequiring Executive Skills

Preschool Preschool Running simple errands (get your Running simple errands (get your

shoes from the room)shoes from the room) Pack away thingsPack away things Perform simple chores and self-Perform simple chores and self-

help tasks with remindershelp tasks with reminders Inhibit behaviors: donInhibit behaviors: don’’t touch hot t touch hot

stove, donstove, don’’t run into the street, t run into the street, dondon’’t grab, hit, push, etct grab, hit, push, etc

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Developmental Tasks Developmental Tasks Requiring Executive SkillsRequiring Executive Skills Kindergarten - grade 2Kindergarten - grade 2

Run errands with 2-3 steps Run errands with 2-3 steps directionsdirections

Tidy roomTidy room Simple choresSimple chores Deciding how to spend moneyDeciding how to spend money Inhibiting behaviors - follow safety Inhibiting behaviors - follow safety

rules, keep hands to selfrules, keep hands to self

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School Related Expectations School Related Expectations Requiring Executive SkillsRequiring Executive Skills

Grades 1 - 3Grades 1 - 3 Greater demand for sustained Greater demand for sustained

concentrationconcentration Need for enhanced filtering of Need for enhanced filtering of

distractionsdistractions Initial stress on reflection, planning Initial stress on reflection, planning

and self-monitoringand self-monitoring Call for persistence and task Call for persistence and task

completioncompletion Stress on consistency controlStress on consistency control

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School Related Expectations School Related Expectations Requiring Executive SkillsRequiring Executive Skills

Grades 4 - 7Grades 4 - 7 Less predictable information flowLess predictable information flow Explosion of decontextualized Explosion of decontextualized

detailsdetails Growing social distractionsGrowing social distractions Need for attention on low interest Need for attention on low interest

topicstopics Stress on extended mental effortStress on extended mental effort Planning and self-regulation is are Planning and self-regulation is are

often demandedoften demanded

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School Related Expectations School Related Expectations Requiring Executive SkillsRequiring Executive Skills

High schoolHigh school Multiple degrees of saliency in Multiple degrees of saliency in

informationinformation Heightened attention, memory, Heightened attention, memory,

language interactionslanguage interactions Growing affective distractionGrowing affective distraction Stress on previewing, pacing and Stress on previewing, pacing and

self-monitoringself-monitoring Flexibility of bottom-up/top-down Flexibility of bottom-up/top-down

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