{"id":1001,"date":"2013-08-16T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2013-10-08T22:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T05:14:42","slug":"organizational-skills-self-regulation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-parents\/organizational-skills-self-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizational Skills &amp; Self-Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Executive Functioning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organizational skills are part of a skill set often referred to as executive functioning skills.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video from Harvard University on Executive Functioning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developingchild.harvard.edu\/resources\/multimedia\/videos\/inbrief_series\/inbrief_executive_function\/\" target=\"_blank\">InBrief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Executive function is a set of mental processes that helps connect past experience with present action. People use it to perform activities such as planning, organizing, strategizing, paying attention to and remembering details, and managing time and space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Think about your child&#8217;s ability to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px\">organize their belongings<\/span><\/li>\n<li>finish their work on time<\/li>\n<li>stay focused<\/li>\n<li>remember and write down assignments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/division3tyeemontessori.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/helpingstudentsthatstrugglewithexecutivefunctioning.pptx\">Helping Students that Struggle with Executive Functioning<\/a>&#8221; a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Erica Warren. This presentation gives strategies to help your child develop their executive functioning skills based on the type of learner that they are.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sources (and for more information)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/developingchild.harvard.edu\/resources\/multimedia\/videos\/inbrief_series\/inbrief_executive_function\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University &#8211; Center on the Developing Child<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncld.org\/types-learning-disabilities\/executive-function-disorders\/what-is-executive-function\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Learning Disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Self-Regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Self-regulation is another skill set that help children be successful both in and outside the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to self-regulate means a child is able to remain calm, alert and focused. It often strongly linked to self-control and self-awareness. There have been several interesting studies related to a child&#8217;s ability to control their impulses or to &#8220;emotionally regulate&#8221; themselves. The most famous it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yo4WF3cSd9Q\" target=\"_blank\">Marshmallow Experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barry MacDonald, the author of Boy Smarts, wrote about emotional regulation in his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/Oct2013_MarshmallowRegulation.pdf\">October Newsletter 2013<\/a>. He includes a some ideas of activities you can do at home to develop a child&#8217;s ability to control their emotions and impulses. For example, make cookies that require time to chill, plant bulbs that will not sprout until later in the year, read a book only a chapter at a time or involve them in planning a family vacation.<\/p>\n<p>When a child is experiencing stress, they burn energy. If they burn too much energy, they may become anxious, become sleepy\u00a0or lose focus.<\/p>\n<p>Children need to learn two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What causes them stress and burns energy?<\/li>\n<li>What activities help them feel calm\u00a0and creates energy?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;There are four key practices that [you] can undertake\u00a0in order to enhance children&#8217;s development of self-regulation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BE A DETECTIVEI Try to figure out your child&#8217;s stressors, what\u00a0helps the child stay calm and alert, what leaves a child hypo- or\u00a0hyper-aroused?<\/li>\n<li>EXERCISEI For a child who wakes up irritable, exercise that works\u00a0their deep muscles is very effective.<\/li>\n<li>MINDFULNESS PROGRAMS. By using mindfulness principles we\u00a0can help children to identify their own arousal states. Try using the car\u00a0analogy for example my engine is running really fast, really slow or just\u00a0right&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>PLAY. When play emerges from children&#8217;s interests it will engage their\u00a0focus. It will help them to consider the perspectives of others and figure\u00a0out what they are thinking. Play encourages communication about\u00a0wants and fosters connections between objects, people &amp; ideas&#8230;.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a great chart to help you determine what how to help your child when their engine is running high or running low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/OT_Chart2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1442\" alt=\"OT_Chart2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/OT_Chart2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/OT_Chart2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/OT_Chart2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/OT_Chart2.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Occupational Therapy article you can find on the &#8220;<a title=\"I\u2019m Worried About\u2026 Social Emotional Concerns\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-parents\/im-worried-about-social-emotional-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m Worried About&#8230;. Social Emotional Concerns<\/a>&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>Read this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/08\/Self-Regulation-Booklet.pdf\">Self Regulation Booklet<\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Stuart Shanker for more information.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sources (and for more information)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.self-regulation.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea-ace.ca\/education-canada\/article\/self-regulation-calm-alert-and-learning\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Regulation: Calm, Alert and Learning<\/a>&#8221; article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Functioning Organizational skills are part of a skill set often referred to as executive functioning skills. Here is a short video from Harvard University on Executive Functioning. 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