Schedule

 
 
Neuroscience and Executive Skills: Strategies for Exercutive Functions, Memory and Learning
July 28-August 1, 2014, Santa Barbara, CA
Monday, July 28 Promoting the Sensory Intake for Memory
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Registration
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Working lunch and introductions
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Description of schedule and participant activities for program
1:15 PM - 2:20 PM

Why know Neuroscience?

Exposing neuromyths        

Increasing demands for strong executive functions

What are effective learning practices?

2:30 PM - 2:30 PM Coffee break
2:35 PM - 4:30 PM

Executive functions of top-down attention control

How to promote and the sustain sensory intake for memory encoding needed for memory construction

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Best learning experience
 
Q&A and small group application collaboration
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Networking reception
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner
Tuesday, July 29 The Emotional Conditions that Promote Memory Construction
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 9:50 AM Emotional requirements for memory processing
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Coffee break
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Executive functions for top-down emotional self-control, learning self-mastery and growth mindset
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Q&A and application collaboration
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
Wednesday, July 30 Memory Construction
8:00 AM - 8:30 PM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Encoding short term memory
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Working memory and executive function top-down efficiency

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM Coffee break
10:25 AM - 12:00 PM Neuroplasticity: Potential and practices
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Q&A and application collaboration
12:10 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch
Thursday, July 31 Teaching for Understanding: Now and Future
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Mental manipulation
 
Building the executive function of reasoning
10:15 AM - 10:25 AM Coffee break
10:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Building executive functions of judgment while constructing transferable concept memory
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
Friday, August 1 Strengthening Developing Executive Functions
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 9:50 AM

Cognitive flexibility

Name my executive function game

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Evaluation forms
10:15 AM - 10:25 AM Coffee break
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Developing executive functions in the prefrontal cortex

Executive functions throughout the curriculum

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals

Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change