Foundations for Effective Assessment and Instruction: Thinking Skills and Executive Function

Overview of Reuven Feuerstein’s model of cognition and intelligence and of Executive Function and how the use of these can help to produce cognitive profiles that feed directly into intervention. Presented by Jane Yeomans. This webinar looks at cognition, focussing on the work of Reuven Feuerstein, particularly his theory of intelligence and how this is ‘operationalised’ in his list of cognitive functions. We will consider how Feuerstein’s model, together with an examination of Executive Function, can help to produce cognitive profiles that feed more directly into intervention. The focus of this webinar is on cognition