Who Is TGlearn?
TGlearn is an Educational Consulting Firm located in Nashville, TN founded in 2012 by Tammy Gibbs, who has worked in education for more than four decades. With her wealth of experience, Tammy formed TGlearn to work with students of ALL ages and backgrounds. Our wide range of clientele preschool through college experiencing challenges navigating education. We firmly believe each student has the ability to succeed when equipped with skills to enable him/her to become responsible productive learners.
Services range from reading & written comprehension coaching, individualized Executive Function (EF) coaching, Get College Ready, College Navigation, TEAM executive function coaching for athletic programs and School Consultation.
Outside of individual coaching, TGlearn collaborates with local schools in the Nashville area to provide EF coaching to students and instruct teachers and administrators on how to implement and maintain EF skills in the classroom. In addition, in 2021, we began to work closely with local high-school and college football teams to aid in having players reach their potential on and off the field through our TEAMS executive function skills program for athletes with a 93-98% success rate for achieving and maintaining eligibility.
What is Executive Function? Why Should I Care?
These skills are the driving force behind how your brain processes, orchestrates, and improvises tasks in your daily life.
Some examples include:
Achieving Goals: They enable individuals to prioritize tasks, stay focused, and effectively manage their time and resources.
Problem Solving: The skills allow individuals to access information, consider different solutions, and implement the most appropriate one.
Self-Control: These skills help individuals regulate their emotions, control impulses, and make informed decisions.
Adaptability: The skill involves mental flexibility, allowing individuals to switch between tasks, adjust their strategies as needed or adapt to new situations.
Academic Success: Strong executive function skills are linked to academic achievement. They contribute to improved focus, attention, and organization, which are vital for learning and success in school.
Healthy Habits: Executive Function plays a role in maintaining healthy habits. It helps individuals stick to routines, make good choices, and resist impulses that may interfere with maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
What Are the 12 Executive Function Skills?
Response Inhibition: The capacity to think before you act – this ability to resist the urge to say or do something allows us the time to evaluate a situation and how our behavior might impact it.
(ie: a player accepting a referee's call without argument; the ability to turn off one’s phone during a lecture.)
Task Initiation: The ability to begin projects without undue procrastination, in an efficient or timely fashion.
(ie: completing homework or chores when it is assigned, not at the last minute.)
Emotional Control: The ability to manage emotions in order to achieve goals, complete tasks, or control and direct behavior.
(ie: a student is able to manage the anxiety of a game or test and still perform.)
Working Memory: The ability to to hold information in memory while performing complex tasks. It incorporates the ability to draw on past learning or experience to apply to the situation at hand or to project into the future.
(ie: a player being able to remember and follow multi-step plays on the field.)
Sustained Attention: The capacity to maintain attention to a situation or task in spite of distractibility, fatigue, or boredom.
(ie: a student is able to pay consistent attention and remain undistracted for their entire hour-long class.)
Planning & Prioritization: The ability to create a roadmap to reach a goal or to complete a task. It also involves being able to make decisions about what’s important to focus on and what’s not important.
(ie: a player is able to plan for the week ahead and balance school and athletics.)
Organization: The ability to create and maintain systems to keep track of information or materials.
(ie: a player can always locate his sports equipment.)
Time Management: The capacity to estimate how much time one has, how to allocate it, and how to stay within time limits and deadlines. It also involves a sense that time is important.
(ie: a high school student can establish a schedule to meet task deadlines.)
Goal-directed Persistence: The capacity to have a goal, follow through to the completion of the goal, and not be put off by or distracted by competing interests.
(ie: a teenager can earn and save money over time to buy something of importance [ie: car])
Flexibility: The ability to revise plans in the face of obstacles, setbacks, new information or mistakes. It relates to an adaptability to changing conditions.
(ie: a player can accept an alternative position that was not his top choice.)
Metacognition: The ability to stand back and take a birds‐eye view of oneself in a situation. It is an ability to observe how you problem solve. It also includes self‐monitoring and self‐evaluative skills (e.g., asking yourself, “How am I doing?” or “How did I do?”).
(ie: a player can monitor and critique his performance and improve it by observing others who are more skilled.)
Stress Tolerance: The ability to thrive in stressful situations and to cope with uncertainty, change, and performance demands.
(ie: a player is not thrown-off when his coach yells at him.)
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