Do your students forget everything you teach them?
Memory improvement relies on reducing cognitive overload and developing metacognitive awareness.
What is executive function?
Firstly, there is not a great deal of available research (currently 28 sources) which explicitly references "executive function", "metacognition" and the "classroom." I had no idea what it was when I was a teacher and school leader!
However, one piece of research caught my eye now that I do have a better understanding; the Effect of Working Memory on [Retrieval] Symptoms of Children with Learning [Needs] (Chen et al.,
Thank you so much for this insight article. As a person trying to get diagnosed for suspected ADHD, this has been insightful into how to implement strategies for self-directed learning.