Executive Functioning and Social-Emotional Learning

UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING

WHAT IS EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING?

Executive skills refer to the brain-based, cognitive processes that help us to regulate our behavior, make decisions, and set and achieve goals. These skills include task initiation and follow through, planning/organization, working memory, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and self-regulation.

Peg Dawson, Smart but Scattered Kids

HOW IS EF RELATED TO LEARNING?

Click the video below to learn how executive functioning is used in learning.

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Executive Functioning

WHAT IS SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)?

SEL is the process of learning and developing skills to recognize and manage emotions, cope with stress, strengthen identity, solve problems, enhance positive relationships, and think critically.

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HOW ARE EF AND SEL RELATED?

"Being social" involves much more than establishing and maintaining friendships! When we interact with others, we have to adapt our behaviour so that we do what is expected and influence how and what they think and feel a bout us. To do this, we have to plan, organize, pay attention, inhibit, initiate, regulate our emotions, and take another's perspective...all executive skills!

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