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Is There a Cure for the Teenage Brain?
Lori Boll
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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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• #ISB
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You can find this presentation here:
http://goo.gl/s1n2Co
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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/>.
Lori Boll | Academic Counselor | www.LoriBoll.me
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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Otherwise, the consequences can be
dire…
“Inside Your Teenager’s Scary Brain”http://goo.gl/OPo2uA
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https://goo.gl/npyVT8
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www.gonoodle.com
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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
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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
