Nuggets for teachers 2: Dr Bettina Hohnen - How to use executive functioning frameworks to improve teaching and learning

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This clip is from my podcast with Dr Bettina Hohnan - Neurodiversity: how to parent and educate neurodiverse brains effectively.
In this clip we discuss the executive function framework and how, as teachers, we can understand a child’s behaviour as a response that may be a skills deficit rather than just bad behaviour. In this way we can learn how to develop children’s skills, setting them up for life in order to be more effective both as a learner and as a social being.
We also talk about Carol Dweck and her theory of the importance of teaching children about growth mindset. Bettina shares how an understanding of the executive function framework sits nicely with this theory and enables to teachers to adopt both as part of the way they work with and develop the children in their classes.
If you’ve heard of growth mindset versus fixed mindset, you need to listen to this clip to hear how this simple but effective strategy will help teach children to understand themselves as having the capacity to change and to learn the skills they need to be successful in what ever they are doing.
Dr Bettina Hohnen is also partnering with Nip in the Bud to do weekly vlogs answering your questions and sharing further advice.
Dr Bettina Hohnen website (including links to her books:
The Incredible Teenage Brain by Bettina Hohnen, Jane Gilmour and Tara Murphy
How to have incredible conversations with your child by Jane Gilmour and Bettina Hohnen
https://drbettinahohnen.com/

Smart but Scattered: The revolutionary "Executive Skills' approach to helping kids reach their potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
https://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/

Executive Function skills in the classroom: overcoming barriers, building strategies by Laurie Faith, Carol-Anne Bush

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Twitter: bettinahohnen
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Hoofdstukken

1. Nuggets for teachers 2: Dr Bettina Hohnen - How to use executive functioning frameworks to improve teaching and learning (00:00:00)

2. What is meant by executive functions? (00:01:10)

3. Detaching the behaviours (00:05:10)

4. Reframing scenarios (00:06:45)

5. Is there a list of executive functions? (00:07:13)

6. Executive functions and ADHD (00:07:28)

7. Mindset and executive functions (00:08:46)

8. Stress... why do we need it? (00:11:33)