2024 Iowa Adult Education & Literacy Conference

In a post-COVID educational system, teachers are being asked to do more with less support and less resources.  There are more disparities with student populations with executive functioning skills and teachers have less support from support staff and fewer resources to ensure success for all students.  Special Education support is helpful yet unable to cover the gap created to support students academically, behaviorally, and socially within the school day.
 
This session will first give participants the opportunity to learn strategies to best support students who struggle with executive functioning skills including those with executive functioning disorders. These strategies will range from strategies that are immediate and easy to implement to strategies that will take more time to put into practice. Educators will also have time to share strategies they have already implemented into classrooms and have proven successful. Most educators have wonderful ideas they are implementing in isolation and rarely have the time to share and collaborate with others regarding what has been successful. This is especially the case when it comes to topics outside of the realm of curricular development. However, executive functioning is arguably one of the most important indicators of success.