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4.5.4 Where’d You Put My Trombone?: Parenting Strategies for Improving Executive Functioning
The once high-functioning gifted child may present as a secondary student who has overnight lost touch with his ability to manage time, space, and materials. Parents may notice unprecedented underachievement, and simple tasks become daily nightmares. Presenters will discuss research on executive functioning, as well as how to help students reframe negative thoughts and initiate steps toward an organized existence.
Author(s):
Joan Jacobs
jjacobs@lps.org
Lincoln Public Schools
United States
With 30 years of experience in gifted education, Dr. Jacobs has worked with students at all age levels across the United States. Her strength as an educator is solving the puzzles that individual students present so that they can become enthusiastic learners.
Elizabeth Ebers-Truesdale
lebers@lps.org
Lincoln Public Schools
United States
A practicing counselor and teacher, Liz Ebers-Truesdale has worked in gifted education for decades, and delights in training teachers as well as teaching gifted populations in Title I schools.