In Depth, Hands on Seminar on Executive Function Skills

Learn it on Saturday...Implement it Monday Morning!

This advanced knowledge day course is for the professional who wants to learn more strategies and techniques, have advanced treatment examples, and become more knowledgeable of the scope and sequence to implement executive function strategies. 

The seminar consists of highly engaging and experiential learning that will give you a firsthand experience of how our executive function interventions can develop independent executive function skills in your students.   For each strategy, there will be examples for elementary, middle and high school aged students.   

This seminar will get you thinking in new ways about how to utilize the 360 Thinking Program interventions, will help you to understand where to start, what goals to set for your client, and give you the opportunity to make and practice implementing a Toolbox of Strategies fort teaching executive function skills.   

Note: For the maximum learning experience, learners attending should have the basic understanding of executive function skills.  This course does NOT teach executive function fundamentals.  While having attended a prior lecture by Sarah Ward or Kristen Jacobsen is highly recommended it is not required.

        Topics Covered in the Advanced Course:

• A brief review of the 360 Thinking Model of Executive Function Skills

•  Advanced implementation of the Get Ready*Do*Done model

•  Advanced planning for tasks and multi-step, complex and abstract assignments

• Generalizing the Get Ready*Do*Done process to independent planning

• Differentiating When, How and for Whom to implement the process in the classroom setting

• Increase a student’s mental visual imagery skills so as to support forethought across space and time

• Calculating the time needed (the temporal window) to complete tasks

• Creating and sticking to time markers when working in the DO phase

• Prospectively identifying and managing time robbers

• Planning homework that lasts more than an hour, or must be completed over days and or weeks. Helping students to plan and effectively utilize time in a resource room/learning skills/homework center

• Additional information and resources for IEP and assessments will also be included   

  When:

Saturday April 8, 2017

8:00-8:30am Registration. Coffee will be served.

8:30-3:00 Seminar. A Box Lunch will be Provided.

Cost: $199.00

Fee Includes Morning Coffee/Light Refreshment, Box Lunch, Course Booklet, and Many Hands On Materials

 

Register Now! 

   

Kristen Jacobsen, MS CCC-SLP

Co-Director at Cognitive Connections LLP,  Kristen has co-authored the innovative 360 Thinking approach to facilitate executive functioning skills. Kristen has also co-authored executive function articles and educational  products, including the Academic Planner and Tracknets, as well as the Time Tracker Program and Get Ready*Do*Done instructional approach. Kristen provides trainings and workshops for teachers to deliver effective executive function based instruction that can reach all learners in their classrooms.
 

 

Who Should Attend

Parents of children who need additional strategies to be organized and effectively manage their time, tasks and materials.  

Parents of children who have  learning challenges with associated executive function based weaknesses.     

Teachers who want to learn how to implement functional strategies into their classrooms which will foster the development of the executive function skills in their students.    

Professionals  who work with children and adolescents who struggle to initiate, to be flexible in their thinking, to execute and complete tasks successfully and who need to provide their patients and families with practical strategies. 

Strategies will be given to address the needs of school aged children.  Multiple examples for younger and older children will be given.  It is not recommended that children or teens attend.

CEUs/PDPs are not offered for this seminar; however upon request participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance and Self Assessment of Learner Objectives. As a third party source of documentation this will verify the number of hours the certificate holder spent as a learner throughout the activity.