Isb is there a cure for the teenage brain

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Is There a Cure for the Teenage Brain?

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Today’s Take-aways• An understanding of

how the teenage brain works

• Learn about executive functioning skills

• Figure out how to support our teenagers in the classroom and at home

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Executive Functioning

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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.

Teenage Brain

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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.

What emotion is this woman feeling?

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you are your child’s frontal lobes

you tell them when to eat, get dressed, how to organize their lives.

exploring

figuring out the world

they don’t know what will happen but you can help them understand

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put their head in the bucket

to be funnyno thought about what could be in there

impulsive

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scattered? disorganized? impulsive?

frustrating!?

How could such a smart kid be so

what are some other words you would use to describe teenagers?

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Hello... where is your common sense?

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“Talk amongst yourselves…”

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Executive Skills: The brain-based skills that are required for humans to execute, or perform tasks.

Taylor, A. (2013). Executive dysfunction after brain injury. Retrieved from https://www.headway.org.uk/executive-dysfunction-after-brain-injury.aspx

The Brain’s CEO

Still maturing

Doesn’t fully develop until age 25

You are your child’s frontal lobes

frontal lobes

As they mature you expect them to as well

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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.

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Executive Skills: The brain-based skills that are required for humans to execute, or perform tasks.

Taylor, A. (2013). Executive dysfunction after brain injury. Retrieved from https://www.headway.org.uk/executive-dysfunction-after-brain-injury.aspx

The “CEO”

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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.

What emotion do you think teens believe she

is showing?

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"The Teen Brain Is A Work In Progress | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/work/>.

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Executive Skills• Response Inhibition

• Emotional Control

• Sustained Attention

• Task Initiation

• Goal-directed Persistence

• Organization

• Time Management

• Planning/Prioritizing

• Working Memory

• Metacognition

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Executive Skills Involving Doing (behavior)

• Response Inhibition

• Emotional Control

• Sustained Attention

• Task Initiation

• Goal-directed Persistence

• Organization

• Time Management

• Planning/Prioritizing

• Working Memory

• Metacognition

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Executive Skills Involving Thinking (Cognition)

• Response Inhibition

• Emotional Control

• Sustained Attention

• Task Initiation

• Goal-directed Persistence

• Organization

• Time Management

• Planning/Prioritizing

• Working Memory

• Metacognition

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Let’s figure out your EF strengths/challenges

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Response Inhibition

Working Memory

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Executive Functioning

with

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“At birth executive skills only exists as potential.The newborn has no actual executive skills.”

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“…Frontal lobes, and therefore executive skills will require 18 to 20 years, or even longer to develop fully.”

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“Given these factors, children cannot rely soley on their own frontal lobes to regulate behavior?

What’s the solution?”

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We lend them ours.

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Otherwise, the consequences can be

dire…

“Inside Your Teenager’s Scary Brain”http://goo.gl/OPo2uA

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School & Class Support

• Make things visual

• Scaffold

• Use Planners

• Help with Locker Organization

• Teach study skills

• Use technology

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3rd grade lesson plan

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What could make this better for children with difficulties with Executive Functioning?

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Scaffolding• Breaking up learning into chunks

• Then providing a tool or structure for each chunk

• Scaffolding is DIFFERENT than differentiation

• Scaffolding should be done for all children

• Take “They should be able to do this” out of your vocabulary.

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Champ, Birdie. "Zone of Proximal Development." Birdie Champ: Thoughts on Education. N.p., 1 Mar. 2010. Web. 6 May 2012. <birdiechamp.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/vygotsky-levels-flat-copy.jpg>.

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It’s  a  Wonderful  World?  Crea2ng  Your  Very  Own  Utopia  

Ra#onale:  As  we  have  been  studying  jus3ce,  we  have  been  looking  at  government  and  what  happens  when  government  structures  break  down.  One  way  of  dealing  with  the  lack  of  order  has  been  for  individuals  to  break  away  and  form  their  own  socie3es  in  hope  of  crea3ng  a  “perfect”  world.    In  conjunc3on  with  The  Giver  and  our  social  studies  unit  on  government,  law,  and  social  jus3ce,  you  will  be  crea3ng  a  mul3-­‐step  Utopia  project.    

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Some students need it broken down even

further

Providea calendar

breakdown

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Planners

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It’s like an elaborate game of Jenga every time a student needs to get something out of there

Locker Organization

• Language Arts- Black

• Math- Red

• Social Studies- Green

• Science- Blue

• Mandarin- Pink

Color-code by subject

Provide dividers or shelves

Periodic locker checks

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Consider a StudySkills curriculum for

your students

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http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu

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• Make a homework plan

• List out assignments

• Make sure you have all materials

• Decide who will provide help if needed

• Estimate time needed

• Prioritize assignments

• Build in breaks

Suggestions for Parents

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Introduce the concept of work-sprints

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Homework Plan

Language Arts Social Studies Math Science

check blog check blog check blog check blog

Write Source pg. 4-6 verbs

Intro to story

Read chapter 2 in text

7.3 problems 1-30 odds

Review for test on Friday

Finish lab report due Wed.

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“As a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when

I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain

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