Spotlight on Managing Executive Functioning Skills in Children with AD/HD
Dr. Rasha Mashmoushi will be giving a workshop as part of the ‘Inclusion and Wellbeing MENA 2022’ conference in Dubai, UAE. Workshop title: Spotlight on Managing Executive Functioning Skills in Children with AD/HD Date: May 17, 2022 Location: Crowne Plaza, Dubai Register Learn More
School: A Place to Listen and Reflect
School personals are advised to focus on providing the opportunity for students to reflect on events happening, and will happen in the world (e.g. pandemic, war in Ukraine). There are different activities that can be done with students depending on their age and developmental stage to explore and think as a group about what is happening. Here are a few examples: Be open to joy and...Learn More
Dynamic Assessment
This blog aims to give an introduction on Dynamic Assessment and a reflection on its importance. As psychologists, we are inclined to think of cognitive abilities as numbers and scores. We think of cognition based on a theory of static or fixed cognitive abilities that can be assessed through standardized testing. Dynamic assessment (DA) is a different assessment tool to standardized...Learn More
Three Actions to Help Learners Learn
One of the most important aspects of learning is to get the learner engaged in the learning process. The first point is the ‘what are you learning?’ ‘What am I learning?’ many of our children in schools do not know what they are learning. This is not to say that what they are learning has not been shared with them, but it means that despite sharing the information with them, they still...Learn More