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Why Tools of the Mind and Montessori Educational Approaches Can Help Executive Function Skills

School curricula empirically shown to improve EFs share several features in common. First, the classroom is not centered around the teacher, and the teacher is rarely expected to teach all children the same thing at the same time.

Montessori Fast-Draw Video

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HBR - Montessori Builds Innovators

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Bannockburn Parents' Association

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Physical Education

The Physical Education curriculum at Bannockburn is comprised of three major areas of knowledge and skill, all of which are organized around the following three strands:

Healthy Living - nutrition, safety, growth and development, health risks

Fundamental Movement Skills - locomotion, manipulation, stability

Active Participation - physical activity, physical fitness

A common element taught in these three strands is living skills, such as personal, interpersonal, conflict resolution, goal-setting, organization, time-management, problem solving and decision-making.

Sports in the Physical Education Curriculum include: Tennis, soccer, basketball, volleyball, floor hockey, track and field - hurdling, triple jump, high jump, sprinting, softball, football, gymnastics, dance and sport aerobics.