Executive Function in Education, First Edition: From Theory to Practice / Edition 1

Executive Function in Education, First Edition: From Theory to Practice / Edition 1

by Lynn Meltzer PhD
ISBN-10:
1606236466
ISBN-13:
9781606236468
Pub. Date:
03/25/2010
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
ISBN-10:
1606236466
ISBN-13:
9781606236468
Pub. Date:
03/25/2010
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
Executive Function in Education, First Edition: From Theory to Practice / Edition 1

Executive Function in Education, First Edition: From Theory to Practice / Edition 1

by Lynn Meltzer PhD

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Overview

This uniquely integrative book brings together research on executive function processes from leaders in education, neuroscience, and psychology. It focuses on how to apply current knowledge to assessment and instruction with diverse learners, including typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The role of executive function processes in learning is examined and methods for identifying executive function difficulties are reviewed. Chapters describe scientifically grounded models for promoting these key cognitive capacities at the level of the individual child, the classroom, and the entire school. Implications for teaching particular content areas—reading, writing, and math—are also discussed.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781606236468
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 03/25/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 5 - 18 Years

About the Author

Lynn Meltzer, PhD, is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Learning and Development (ILD) and ResearchILD in Lexington, Massachusetts. She holds appointments as an Associate in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Tufts University Department of Child Development. Dr. Meltzer's clinical practice, research, publications, and presentations have focused on understanding the complexity of learning and attention problems using a multidimensional model to bridge the gap between theory, research, and practice. A fellow and past president of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, she is the founder and chair of the national Learning Differences Conference.

Table of Contents

I. Executive Function: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
1. Executive Function: Binding together the Definitions of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities, Martha Bridge Denckla
2. "Hill, Skill, and Will": Executive Function from a Multiple-Intelligences Perspective, Seana Moran and Howard Gardner
3. Executive Capacities from a Developmental Perspective, Jane Holmes Bernstein and Deborah P. Waber
4. Connecting Cognitive Science and Neuroscience to Education: Potentials and Pitfalls in Inferring Executive Processes, Kurt W. Fischer and Samantha G. Daley
II. Executive Function Difficulties in Different Diagnostic Groups: Challenges of Identification and Treatment
5. Executive Function Difficulties and Learning Disabilities: Understandings and Misunderstandings, Lynn Meltzer and Kalyani Krishnan
6. Nonverbal Learning Disabilities and Executive Function: The Challenges of Effective Assessment and Learning, Judith A. Stein and Kalyani Krishnan
7. Executive Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Research to Practice, Sally Ozonoff and Patricia L. Schetter
III. Interventions to Address Executive Function Processes
8. Executive Function in the Classroom: Embedding Strategy Instruction into Daily Teaching Practices, Lynn Meltzer, Laura Sales Pollica, and Mirit Barzillai
9. Executive Control of Reading Comprehension in the Elementary School, Irene West Gaskins, Eric Satlow, and Michael Pressley
10. Addressing Executive Function Problems in Writing: An Example from the Self-Regulated Strategy Development Model, Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, and Natalie Olinghouse
11. The Strategic Math Classroom: Executive Function Processes and Mathematics Learning, Bethany N. Roditi and Joan Steinberg
12. Teaching Metacognitive Strategies That Address Executive Function Processes within a Schoolwide Curriculum, Irene West Gaskins and Michael Pressley
13. Deficits in Executive Function Processes: A Curriculum-Based Intervention, David Rose and Katherine Rose

Interviews

School psychologists; neuropsychologists; teacher educators; classroom teachers and special educators in grades K–12. May serve as a text in graduate-level courses addressing learning and the brain.

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