How Executive Function Can Trigger Student Dysregulation
About this episode
This episode explores how hidden executive function demands can lead to student dysregulation in the classroom.
What if a pupil’s dysregulation isn’t just about behaviour - but about hidden executive function demands they can’t yet manage? In this episode of School Behaviour Secrets, you’ll learn how difficulties with executive function can fuel frustration, overload and emotional dysregulation in the classroom. Using a concrete case study and the PAIN framework, we unpack how challenges with holding information in mind and inhibiting impulses can quickly tip a child from not coping with work into shut...
More episodes of School Behaviour Secrets with Simon Currigan and Emma Shackleton
- The Hidden Causes of Attention-Seeking Behaviour
- Why Good School Strategies Fail - And How To Fix Them
- SEND Reform Is Coming: What It Means For Behaviour And SEMH In Schools
- Why The Students Who Need Your Help the Most Are the Ones Who Reject It (Understanding Avoidant Attachment)
- Why Social Media Makes Children’s Behaviour Worse (And How To Help)
- Emotional regulation is not a curriculum – and treating it like one backfires
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the School Behaviour Secrets with Simon Currigan and Emma Shackleton podcast page.