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Training executive functions in kindergarten

Games and workshops for the enhancement of attention, working memory, inhibition and flexibility

Claudia Milano, Claudia Sepe, Maria Vittoria Marotta, Emanuela Mastroprimiano

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 112

ISBN: 978-88-590-2763-8

Publication date: 01/01/2022

Suitable for: Nursery 1st Level (ages 3-4), Nursery 2nd Level (ages 4-5)


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The volume provides kindergarten teachers with materials and tools to assess any difficulties in executive functioning and to intervene promptly to strengthen and enhance the children’s abilities.

After an introduction on executive functions, the volume introduces play-tests which include:

  • an initial collective administration, aimed at identifying children with greater difficulties than the class group through group activities;
  • a second individual administration, to deepen and address the difficulties of the individual child.

Subsequently, following a flexible and measurable decision-making process regarding the outcomes, teachers will be able to choose the most useful enrichment activities based on the specific difficulties of the student. In this way, each pupil will have all the resources necessary to learn effectively at school and in general throughout life. The enhancement activities are divided into:

  • Activities for improving attention
  • Activities for improving the working memory
  • Activities for strengthening inhibition
  • Activities for strengthening shifting


INDEX
CH. 1 - Executive functions at…school
CH. 2 - The play-tests
Collective play-tests
Individual play-tests
CH. 3 - Strengthening workshops
Activities for improving attention
Activities for improving the working memory
Activities for strengthening inhibition
Activities for strengthening shifting
CH. 4 - The materials
CH. 5 - Application examples regarding the decision path
Conclusions
Bibliography