Janet Stowell
Janet has always had in interest in writing and in 2007 completed a Certificate in Freelance Journalism through The New Zealand Institute of Business Studies (achieved with Merit). She had a futuristic diary published in the University of Waikato School of Education Library in 2000 and enjoys dabbling in personal writing projects.
An educationist, Janet completed her Master of Specialist Teaching in Learning and Behaviour through Massey University graduating with distinction in March 2017. Her findings steered her on an insightful path that led her to self-publish her book, “The Executive Functions Toolkit for Classroom Teachers” in November 2018. Janet self-published her second book, "Growing Sef-regulating Kids: The Executive Functions Toolkit for Parents", at the end of February 2022. This book written for parents to help them help their children develop strong executive functions and self-regulation.
Janet is excited that she has now completed the final draft of her third book about teaching students to harness executive functions in support of learning the 3Rs (reading, writing and arithmetic)! The draft is currently with her proofreader, before being sent to her designer, and then on to be printed. The timeline is uncertain, but hopefully the book will be available to purchase in the near future...
Genre:
- Non-Fiction
- Poetry
Skills:
- Freelance Writing
- Journalism
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
Branch:
Hamilton
Location:
Hamilton
Publications:
The Executive Functions Toolkit for Classroom Teachers
This research based, peer reviewed handbook for teachers informs how to teach children to strengthen their executive functions. Executive functions are cognitive skills that people use to make decisions, plan, solve problems and manage their own thinking and behaviour. In essence they are life skills that we use in everyday situations to get things done. This book gives teachers background information about executive functions, definitions of specific executive functions, strategies to improve specific executive functions, ideas for classroom teaching, templates, comparison with the key competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum and the different executive functions we draw on in different learning areas. The executive functions covered in this book are: response inhibition, cognitive flexibility, working memory, organisation, time management, goal setting, planning/prioritising and task initiation.
Growing Self-regulating Kids: The Executive Functions Toolkit for Parents
This book is an informative, interactive, easy-to-use handbook for parents who are interested in helping their children (and themselves) learn to manage their own thinking and behaviour, acquiring skills that will lead to self-management and eventually self-regulation.
Publication date: February 2022
Publisher: Janet Stowell Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-473-61113-2