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Cognitive Flexibility: The Mental Skill Every Learner Needs

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Switching between different cognitive tasks is critical in the classroom. Students learn one word can have multiple meanings. They move from one subject to another. This episode of Literacy Talks focuses squarely on cognitive flexibility, its role in executive function, and how literacy educators can help students build these skills to be confident, capable thinkers and readers.
So, get set to learn more about cognitive flexibility and why it matters. You can help students learn about changing their minds, switching from one idea to another, and simultaneously holding multiple viewpoints and thoughts. This episode gives us all a great deal to think about!
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Literacy Leaders:

Resources:

Literacy Lexicon:

  • Cognitive flexibility: the mental ability to switch between thinking about two different concepts, according to the context of a situation.
  • SRSD: Self-Regulated Strategy Development


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Switching between different cognitive tasks is critical in the classroom. Students learn one word can have multiple meanings. They move from one subject to another. This episode of Literacy Talks focuses squarely on cognitive flexibility, its role in executive function, and how literacy educators can help students build these skills to be confident, capable thinkers and readers.
So, get set to learn more about cognitive flexibility and why it matters. You can help students learn about changing their minds, switching from one idea to another, and simultaneously holding multiple viewpoints and thoughts. This episode gives us all a great deal to think about!
Show Notes
Literacy Leaders:

Resources:

Literacy Lexicon:

  • Cognitive flexibility: the mental ability to switch between thinking about two different concepts, according to the context of a situation.
  • SRSD: Self-Regulated Strategy Development


Chat about this episode in The Science of Reading Collective.
Explore the Reading Horizons Discovery® Product Suite.
Access past show notes.
Read the transcripts.

  continue reading

93 episodes

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