Two Writing Teachers Podcast
Since 2007, Two Writing Teachers has been a vibrant community of reflective writers. We're excited to take our passion for teaching writing to new heights in the second season of our podcast. Join us as we explore ways to create, lead, and sustain joyful and productive writing workshops, empowering educators to help their students become competent, brave, and confident writers. Let's make writing instruction engaging and rewarding for everyone involved!
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Two Writing Teachers Podcast
Help K-8 Students with Executive Functioning Needs: A Conversation with a Colleague
This episode features Betsy Hubbard, an experienced educator and co-author at Two Writing Teachers. The discussion explores the critical role of executive functioning skills in writing and how deficits in these areas can impact students' performance. Betsy shares practical strategies for teachers to support executive functioning in writing workshops, including techniques for breaking tasks into manageable chunks and providing organizational templates. The episode also covers the importance of incorporating executive functioning activities into the classroom environment. It offers examples of self-regulation techniques to help students overcome challenges in the writing process.
Previous TWT Podcast Episodes Mentioned
- Accommodations for Access to Writing Instruction
- Build Writing Confidence with the "Ready, Do, Done" Model
- Co-Create Writing Goals
- Unlock Strategies for Task Initiation
Go Deeper
- Contingency Maps for Writing Workshops
- FLIPP the Switch
- Quick Facts on Executive Functions from Child Mind Institute
More About Betsy Hubbard:
- Personal Blogs
- TWTBlog Posts
- X (formerly Twitter)
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