How To Teach ADHD Students
Links to 60+ Articles, Ebooks and PowerPoints on Teaching Students with ADHD
8-10% of students in K-12 have ADHD. We’re the biggest number of Special Needs students although we’re often neglected. These articles and ebooks will:
- help ADHD students learn more and with less struggle
- reduce the ADHD student’s stress and ODD
- improve the whole classroom environment
- reduce the teacher’s stress
As someone who used to be an ESL teacher for 5 years in Japan and Vancouver, I think having ADHD can be a competitive edge as a teacher, minus the paperwork:)
Since I’ve been an Adult ADHD coach since 2003, I prefer to focus on practical vs. theoretical articles. I don’t coach high school or university students just ADHD entrepreneurs and ADHD adults in the workforce but some other ADHD coaches do focus on students.
ADHD is the number two inherited genetic condition after height, 80%.
Hint to teachers, if a child has ADHD, it’s important the parents get screened for it too, if not for themselves, then for the benefit of their child.
If the mother or father or both are in denial or minimization about their ADHD, they will often be in denial or minimization about their child’s ADD. This creates worse outcomes at school and at home, and it’ll be harder for you to teach them.
Quick Harvard Adult ADHD Screening Test, and 10 ways to manage adult ADHD.
Some students with ADHD have many problems in school and struggle greatly, some do very well. I have ADHD and I made the dean’s honours list in University and had one of my essays published. But it would have been a much easier road for me if I was diagnosed, treated and taught using some of these methods.
Many Adders with a high IQ go undiagnosed. There’s a Mensa Special Interest Group on ADHD that has 600+ members, and there are many adults with ADHD who have Ph.D.’s and teach in a place like Harvard and Yale.
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