Developing and Supporting Executive Function and Cognitive Structures Development:
Achieve Greater Student Learning Outcomes

 

 October 17, 2012 (Registration Deadline: October 10, 2012)
4:00 – 7:00 p.m.   (Registration/Check-In: 3:30 p.m.)
Bangor Motor Inn, Bangor, ME

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• Why are students who seem so smart struggling with school work completion and learning tasks?
• How do students develop their cognitive structures/executive function?
• What can a teacher do to help students develop a student’s cognitive structures?

Spend an evening with other interested colleagues reflecting, exploring, clarifying, building upon, and enhancing  understanding of Cognitive Structures and Executive Function. Cognitive Structures: the ability to make connections with prior knowledge and experiences, find patterns, identify predictable rules, and abstract general principles that can be applied to new and different situations, are essential to learning.  Do you have students that would benefit from developing skills in this area also called Executive Function? Join us for the evening and you will be able to use your new insights as well as experience lots of strategies to help students who are struggling break through hidden barriers to learning. 

Outcomes: By the end of the session, success will look, sound, and/or feel like:

• A compilation of skills and supports to plan for areas of need in cognitive structures and executive function.
• Inspiration to create goals and plans for your struggling students that lead to better learning outcomes.
• “Can do” confidence to apply your new learning in your own teaching and learning environment.
• Re-newed, re-energized, and re-vitalized from sharing a learning experience with your professional peers.

Learning session fee of  $65.00 includes hearty snacks and handouts. Our cancellation policy is 72 hours prior to the event. You will be expected to pay if you do not attend and cannot provide printed confirmation of your cancellation. If you are a full-time student enrolled in an education degree program, contact us about a discount.

Three Clock Hours will be awarded.

Co-sponsors: Syntiro and the Maine Chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children.

On-site facilitator:  Alcinda Hall, Penobscot Regional Facilitator

This learning session is designed for all educators that work with students who are struggling with the demands of learning.

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