Paula Moraine

Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions

The Attention Fix

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an innovative model for strengthening and developing executive function in any student, including those with attention, memory, organization, planning, inhibition, initiative, and flexibility difficulties. It provides guidance on how to support each student's evolving executive function.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781849058841
• ISBN-10: 1849058849
• Artikelnr.: 34692478

Autorenporträt

Paula Moraine, M.Ed. has been a teacher and tutor for elementary grades, high school and college students, as well as a mentor, coach and adult educator in teacher training programs in the US, Germany and Scotland. She has lectured widely and led interactive workshops on child development, education and parenting. She is currently Director of the Community Outreach Center for Literacy and Tutoring Program at The Highlands School in Bel Air, Maryland, where she developed the program that forms the basis of this book by working with students of all ages, helping them to take control of their everyday executive functions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Ingredients. 1. Relationships. 2. Strengths and
Weaknesses. 3. Self-Advocacy to Self-Responsibility. 4. Review and Preview:
Mental Image. 5. Motivation and Incentive. 6. Synthesis and Analysis: From
the Whole to the Parts and from the Parts to the Whole. 7. Rhythm and
Routine: Practice and Repetition. 8. Implicit and Explicit. Part II:
Practice and Application: The Executive Functions. 9. Attention. 10.
Memory. 11. Organization. 12. Planning. 13. Inhibition and Initiative. 14.
Flexibility and/or Shift. 15. Control of Emotion and Control of Behavior.
16. Goals. 17. The Executive Function Map. Specific Approaches. Conclusion:
Golden Rules. References. Index.