Executive Function Skills: The Keys to College Transition
by Rick Bryck, Ph.D. and Adam Lalor, Ph.D. Introduction Yu and colleagues (2010) note that a little more than 25% of first-year college students fail…
by Rick Bryck, Ph.D. and Adam Lalor, Ph.D. Introduction Yu and colleagues (2010) note that a little more than 25% of first-year college students fail…
In this video, Dr. Rick Bryck discusses the importance of cognitive flexibility along with the cost of multitasking. …
Watch the short video (5:30) below to hear Dr. Rick Bryck discuss a few tips for supporting working memory challenges in the classroom.
In a traditional classroom, we have the luxury of answering clarifying questions and reminding students of the sequence of tasks, and we can provide lots of visual and verbal cues to help students stay organized and on-task. In an online environment, we don’t have the same opportunities to support students in the moment, so it’s incumbent on us to be intentional and consistent in how we present learning materials to them. Otherwise we risk creating unnecessary confusion and frustration; in other words: we can’t change the weather, or lighten traffic, but we can make sure the streets are well lit and there are signs to guide their way.
Landmark College Student Gabrian Raphael created this video about his experience with ADHD.
In my time as a high school teacher, I worked with my fair share of teenagers who engaged in … challenging behavior. But the students that concerned me the most were those who did not have at least one trusting, positive relationship with some adult in school. In these scenarios, my fear stemmed from how little we know about the emotional state of our students at such a vulnerable part of their development. It was too easy to miss signs of& serious distress and even easier to miss crucial opportunities to help them expand their abilities or sense of possibilities. Their classwork and their grades could maybe tell us what, or if, they were learning; but we had few answers to the most essential question: how are they handling the critical challenges of adolescence? That so many of us have a story about a teacher (or some other caring adult) who played a critical role in guiding us through adolescence is a testament to the power and importance of the connections we should strive to make with our students.