AE 509 — The Executive Brain: Development
In this course educators will work with professional colleagues in their local educational context, SMSU professor(s), local administrator(s) and community-based professionals to increase their understanding of the executive skills that comprise each of the three major brain networks, how to recognize each of these executive skills, how and when they develop, and how to support their development. Students will study in greater depth each of the executive skills in: the salience network including, the sensory-motor system, memory, relational (analogical) reasoning, attention, motivation, decision-making, self-control, self-assessment and the consequences of ineffective self-assessment; the default mode network including, social-emotional brain, social memory, and the importance of this network in supporting student learning; and the task-specific network, including, critical thinking, language, math, and the core components involved in supporting the most effective development of these skills and students learning.