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Executive SkillsExecutive Skills
A Practical GuideA Practical Guide
The 1st Southern Tagalog Symposium on Developmental Disabilities
Executive SkillsExecutive Skills
Conductor of an orchestraConductor of an orchestra
Channel selector of TVChannel selector of TV Chairman of the BoardChairman of the Board
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
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
Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills
Select and achieve goalsSelect and achieve goals
Develop problem solutionsDevelop problem solutions
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)
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
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!
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
Role of Executive Thinking Role of Executive Thinking SkillsSkills
Modifies your behavior to be Modifies your behavior to be able to meet the goalsable to meet the goals
MetacognitionMetacognition The ability observe yourself in a The ability observe yourself in a
situationsituation Self-monitoringSelf-monitoring
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
processingprocessing
Keys:
PARTNERSHIP+COLLABORATION+OPTIMISM
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SuccessfulLearning
ReferenceReference
Dawson P. and Guare R., (2004) Dawson P. and Guare R., (2004) Executive Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, A Skills in Children and Adolescents, A Practical Guide to Assessment and Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention, Intervention, The Guilford Press, New The Guilford Press, New York, NYYork, NY
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