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Live Webinar

Executive Function in the Classroom & Clinic

30 Cognitive-Motor Activities & Coaching Strategies to Improve Attention, Self-Regulation, Cognitive Flexibility, & More

Speaker:
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC053230
Brochure Code:
PWZ95319
Media Type:
Live Webinar

Dates


Description

Teaching students how they think, learn, and behave empowers them to play an active role in their own learning. When children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, oppositional tendencies, and disinterest in school are taught how to be “Cognitive Scientists” coaching their own brains to plan, prioritize, attend, and remember, they become more invested in school and motivated to learn.

Taking the mystery out of executive functions by showing students how to learn more efficiently while calming their defensive brains leads to better concentration, improved attention, higher academic achievement, and competent social-emotional skills.

In this live webcast, Lynne Kenney, Psy.D., pediatric psychologist, author, and international educator, will teach you how to integrate the newest research in neuroscience, kinesiology, and education for kids to learn more efficiently. You will discover over 30 developmentally progressive cognitive-exercises, worksheets, and activities to enliven your classroom. Learn how to improve cognition, enhance learning, and empower children to be better thinkers with motor movement, sequencing, attending, self-regulation, and memory activities.

Dress comfortably, as we will be moving to think and calming to learn by employing balls, body percussion, rhythm activities, yoga, and music.

Credit

Program Information

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Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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Full attendance at this live activity qualifies for 6.25 contact hours.

 



Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Choose research-based activities educators, teachers, and school psychologists can use to improve thinking, self-regulation and behavior.
  2. Examine the relationship between cognition and motor movement.
  3. Utilize neurocognitive activities to bring physical activity back to the classroom.
  4. Determine how students calm their defensive brains leading to better concentration, improved attention, and competent social-emotional skills.
  5. Evaluate the integration of computer-based cognitive skills training and motor movement activities.
  6. Use applied neuroscience research to enhance collaboration and cooperation in the classroom.

Outline

What You Need to Know about Movement and Cognition

  • Explore the new neuroscience of movement and cognition
  • Teach “Brain Lessons” to increase the efficacy of self-coaching executive function skills
  • Define & teach executive function skills to children
  • Embodied cognition – Learning is a whole-body experience
  • Bring daily physical activity into the classroom and clinic

Current Research on the Role of Movement in Learning

  • Physical activity improves health and academic achievement
  • Types of exercise that will enhance executive function
  • How to Implement a Movement Schedule
  • Using collaboration and student creativity to improve behavior

Activities, Tools and Strategies Alerting, Attending and Energizing

  • Disappearing Beats: Experience Attention & Memory in Action
    • We are Musical
    • Musical Entrainment
    • Foundational Movements
    • Measures are Magic!
    • Movimals
    • 1 2 3 Action
    • CogniTap

Self-Regulation

  • The difference between self-regulation and self-control
  • Task demands and perceived stress
  • Stressor identification & arousal states
  • Slowing down for better cognitive control
    • Entrainment and Synchrony
    • Entrain me (Walk & Bounce with me)
    • Co-Regulation – Swing, sway, sing
    • The Music Carpet Ride
    • Head, Shoulders, Hips & Knees
    • Rhythm Ball
    • 3, 5, 7, 9 For Calming in Time

Attention/Memory

  • The BIG 3 – Attention, working memory & self-control
    • Cognitive Conversations
    • Brain Lessons
    • My Attention Engine
    • My Memory Window
    • Cat, Dog, Tree
    • Slow & Quick Encoding and Retrieval
    • Having a Ball!
    • The Secret is The Sequence
    • The Parts of the Task Game

Behavior

  • Anxiety, agitation and hopefulness
  • What to say, think and do when children are escalating
  • The power of self-talk
    • Who’s Jelly Beans Am I Holding?
    • The Purpose Circle
    • What’s In It For Me?
    • Anger Mountain
    • My Anger Manager
    • I’ll Give This 10
       

Target Audience

  • Educators
  • Special Educators
  • Psychologists
  • School Psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Other Helping Professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      5

Total Reviews: 5

Comments

Jolana B

"Thanks for the info. I took away many activities that I can use with my students. "

Jennifer P

"Great class!"

Judi D

"excellent program. Can't wait to implement it!"

Nevenka L

"Fun and great motor cognitive exercises for all ages!"

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