Understanding and Supporting Executive Functioning

Discover the importance of executive function strengths, skills and difficulties within teaching and learning and how to apply adaptive approaches and strategies to support your students.

All of us have a range of executive function strengths, skills and difficulties, but for our neurodivergent learners, or those who have identified SEND, these can be overwhelming.

Understanding and supporting executive functioning is often transformative in reducing barriers to engagement and learning, and accelerating progress for all students, and it is a crucial aspect to identify, support and enable for those with ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia.

Attend this course to learn some basics to apply within your context in order to better support your students.

Within this session you will be introduced to what executive function skills are and how to support learners to:

• cultivate confidence
• extend engagement
• optimise organisation
• maximise metacognition
• reinforce resilience

This session is for Teachers, Teaching Assistants, School Leaders, SENDCOs, in all phases.

Sandra Tibbles is an education consultant, trainer and former mainstream and special
school Headteacher and SENDCO. She began her 25+ year teaching career as a drama teacher within mainstream secondary education, and has since worked throughout the education sector, spanning all ages and key stages across local authority maintained, multi academy trust operated, community, and independent schools both in the UK and internationally.

Sandra’s work with schools has creativity and wellbeing at its core and she passionately advocates for inclusive practice, applying key principles of neuroscience, and her extensive knowledge and experience of special educational needs provision, to meet the needs of all learners.

Sandra is a LinkedIn ‘Top Educational Leadership Voice’ and she writes, develops and delivers training about inclusive educational practices at conferences, events and across educational platforms.

Accessing the online event

Following registration for this event you will receive an email from Eventbrite confirming your place. If you do not receive the email within a few minutes, please check your junk or spam folders and check that the correct email address was provided at the time of booking. If you did not create an account at the time of booking or someone else booked on your behalf, you will need to create an Eventbrite account. Open your booking confirmation email, select ‘Claim Your Order’ and then choose a password. Make a note of your email address that was used to make the booking and your new password – you will need these to access the Eventbrite page containing the link to the event.

A minimum of 48 hours before the event begins you will receive another email from Eventbrite containing a direct link to the event and to the Eventbrite Online Event page. Login to Eventbrite, using the same email and password you used to create your account. You will now have access to the online event link and any pre-event materials. This link must not be shared with other people.

Please test the link the day before the event to make sure you can connect. If you need help please email info@otsa.org.uk or call 01865 647999 in good time before the event begins. We will be unable to help during the event itself. Please note, if you unsubscribe from Eventbrite before the event takes place you will not receive any further emails from Eventbrite and therefore will not receive the email with the link to the event.

We do not provide refunds if you are unable to access the event due to technical issues that are beyond our control.

Participation in online events

In all cases, at the beginning of the session to confirm your identity please ensure that your camera is on, your username matches the name you registered with and that you register in ‘chat’ with your first name, second name and organisation. This is for security and registration purposes and we may remove, without refunds, participants who have not confirmed their identity as described above.

Our online events aim to be interactive and at times you may be expected to have your camera and microphone on during the session, although usually your microphone should be muted.

We may use ‘Raised Hands’, ‘Reactions’, ‘Chat’, ‘Polls’, shared whiteboards and shared screens during the session. We may also use ‘Breakout Rooms’ to allow you to work in a smaller group.

This event will not be recorded for copyright and privacy reasons.

Refunds

No refunds will be given with less than 30 days notice.

In the event of a refund request, please note that the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% plus 0.59p per ticket is not refundable.

To keep our event fees as low as possible, we are not able to issue invoices for payment by cheque or bank transfer and we are not able to reserve places without payment.

We strongly recommend that you take out ‘event ticket insurance’ which may cover the cost of your fee should you be unable to attend the event.

Technical difficulties

Should an online session encounter any technical difficulties we will do our best to continue with the session, this may be on a different online platform. In the event that we are unable to do this we will rearrange the session, if you are unable to attend the new date a full refund will be given.

Restriction on AI and Automated Participation

Our online training sessions are designed for human participants only. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) bots, automated systems, or any non-human entities to attend, participate in, or interact with the training content is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to remove any unauthorised participants and take appropriate action if this policy is violated.