Why should I learn Executive Function Skills during the summer when I have no school?

Question

When you aren't in school your mind is more relaxed and open to learning the very skills you need to succeed in college. Without the stress you can learn fabulous techniques and train your brain to focus better before the next semester.

Our brains are full of neurons that send messages throughout the body. For the neurons to work, the chemical neurotransmitters must be fired up to get the messages past the synapses between the neurons. The catalyst for this to happen is deliberate practice and challenging the brain with boring exercises. The very thing your brain wants to run from grows and increases its skill when forced to work with what it wants to run away from. This can only be done by someone administering the exercises and making you accountable.

We have evidence based research that proves that ones focus can improve with neurocognitive training and the neuro change method. Thanks to neuroscience we know that the neuroplasticity in our brains means that we don't die with the brain we are born with. We can change the way our brain functions.

Our proven method of teaching executive function skills using a unique approach has proven to help clients succeed in their studies, graduate, go on to graduate school, and get into the careers of their choice. It can happen!

Yep, you have to work for it, but it is so so worth it!

Answer 1

Executive Functioning skills are skills that are used throughout your entire day. You use these skills when doing anything in your life. Your executive functioning skills are: task initiation, time management, impulse control, emotional control, organization, planning, flexibility and problem solving. If you are planning your day, you will utilize most of your executive functioning skills to do just that. These skills should not be told to you, you need to develop them. A tutor does not plan your day and be your "executive functioning" part of your brain. They should help you develop these skills so you can use them independently. By using questions to help you plan and execute, they are more of a coach than a tutor.

Answer 2

Executive functioning isn't something you just use in school. You use it everywhere, and there are so many great ways to practice it in the summer when you are not busy with school! For example, building yourself a tree house or tent requires planning, time management, focus, organization, and follow-through. Activities like cooking also use those skills and help you learn to read and work precisely. You don't need a workbook or textbook. You just need lots of fun projects that require many steps.

Answer 3

Executive Function Skills are simply a set of skills that help us become better learners. In fact, even after school, these skills are useful to help us succeed professionally, in sports, and in our social life. There are many views of what Executive Function is, but all have in common a simple set of qualities that we can develop for life. I think that setting goals and controlling our desires to do something else is at the heart of Executive functioning. Those who focus on their goals and work to get them are the most successful people. Flexibility is essential to success because the world offers so many reversals and throughbacks that we must be willing to adapt to continue in our path. Soon in our pursuit of goals, we will come to the realization that planning and getting started on every part of the plan is the only way we can be certain we will accomplish our goals. Additionally, many people add the development of short term memory to a good Executive Function Skill development program. I would think that developing memory functions should come before the rest of the Executive Function Skill development.

Now that I have expressed how I see Executive Function Skills, I can assure you that the summer, when you are free of so many other responsibilities, is the best time for you to learn non academic skills. You can spend the summer playing basketball, canoeing, swimming, or partying. I am sure you will learn some skills that will be used for you. Yet, mostly, you will just be passing time.I know those games will be very entertaining, but learning Executive Function Skills should be even more entertaining. Do you realize how much fun it is to learn to do things better, to accomplish more, to succeed? If your Executive Skill program is good, you should wake up every morning looking forward to participate in the program. Every day, you should have a challenge that makes you better.

Give Executive Skills a chance. You will have fun doing it and will be more successful next year.

Answer 4

There is a new and successful approach to teaching executive function skills. We help our college students identify their purpose and goals. By introducing the concepts of growth mindset and emotional intelligence, our students use self-determination to own what they have to do to succeed. They then master their skills as they relate to what it is they are doing. The difference in this approach is astounding.