Tag: growth mindset
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Unlocking Student Potential: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs When Setting Goals
Students who struggle often fail to reach their full potential due to limiting beliefs. These self-imposed barriers hinder their growth and impede the development of essential skills, including executive function […]
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ADHD: Celebrating and Building on Students’ Strengths
Every student has their own set of strengths and talents, and students with ADHD are no exception. While they may face challenges in executive function, it is crucial for educators […]
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Learning to Give Students Grace
This post is part of a series that highlights themes and takeaways from ResearchILD’s 37th Annual Executive Function Conference: Executive Function & Social-Emotional Learning: Promoting Resilience, Stress Management, and Academic […]
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Parent Perspective: Why Our Kids Say “Can’t”
As a student with ADHD and dyslexia, my daughter started hearing about all the ways she was “bad” at a very young age. She was told she can’t sit still, […]
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Motivation Monday: Self-Determination Theory
According to self-determination theory (link opens in new tab/window), humans feel motivated when these three psychological needs are met: Autonomy: the desire for choice and control of personal decisions Competency: […]
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Motivation Monday: Goal Orientation Theory and Growth Mindset
Goal orientation theory posits that students engage in any given learning activity for one of two reasons. If an individual has a performance orientation towards a task, they complete it […]
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Modeling Persistence to Students
When it comes to students’ learning and growth, we know that persistence matters. When we think about persistence, we typically think about students’ internal motivational states. But what about external […]
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Executive Function and Strengthening Motivation
Motivation is an essential ingredient when it comes to learning executive function strategies. Let’s face it — learning executive function strategies is hard work. Plus we are often asking students […]
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Executive Function at Home: Metacognition
When it comes to school (in person, remote, or homeschooling), parents know a lot about their children. They can often describe, in detail, the strengths and challenges of their children’s […]
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Goal Setting for 2021
The New Year offers a fresh start, a great time for setting goals and teaching executive function goal-setting strategies. Try this ten-minute activity to help students reflect on their year and […]