Changing Students’ Lives with Personalized Executive Function Mentoring

Authors

  • Matthew T. Marino School of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, University of Central Florida
  • Eleazar Vasquez III Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute, University of Central Florida

Keywords:

Universal Design for Learning,, STEM Education, Postsecondary, Executive Function

Abstract

Providing individualized supports using the UDL frame-work can be challenging in standards-driven teacher prepa-ration programs. This paper describes how choice, flexibil-ity, and creativity can lead to effective mentoring of under-graduate STEM majors and address executive function def-icits. It describes how education teachers in the Exceptional Education Program at the University of Central Florida, built relationships and mentored undergraduate STEM ma-jors using the UDL framework. While this talk focuses on higher education, lessons learned can be easily transferred to students in middle and high school. The manuscript is based on a recently concluded three-year study with 120 undergraduate STEM majors and their graduate student mentors.

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Published

2019-04-12

Issue

2019 International Summit Proceedings

Section

Research Articles

License

Copyright is held by the author.  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Changing Students’ Lives with Personalized Executive Function Mentoring. (2019). Journal of Human and Connected Computing. https://journals.ku.edu/hcc/article/view/12032