Events

2 Day Skills Practice Workshop: Strengthening Executive Skills to Promote School Success

October 30, 2019 to October 31, 2019

  • Category: Workshop
  • Region: Eastern Ontario
  • Topic: Child Development, Other
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these skills. Neuroscientists now tell us that these skills take a minimum of 25 years to reach full maturation, and the course of that development is influenced by experience and exposure, by modelling, practice, and direct instruction. This workshop will provide participants with a framework for understanding these key skills, how they develop in diverse populations, and how to support executive skills by embedding them into classroom routines and lessons and by tailoring interventions to meet the needs of individual students and classrooms.

  • Organizer: Jack Hirose & Associates
  • Cost: $469.00 plus tax (further discounts available including: earlybird pricing, group discounts, student & workshop aide rates, etc.)
  • Location: Holiday Inn – Ottawa East
  • Address: 1199 Joseph Cyr St, Gloucester, ON K1J 7T4
  • Website: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/smart-scattered-ottawa/
  • Contact: Maddison White or Nicole Wiggins
  • Phone: +1 604-924-0296
  • Fax: +1 604-924-0239
  • Email: [email protected]