Category: Teaching
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ADHD + School + Music Make the World Go Round
What’s better? Music or computers? New research makes a case for Bach. Students with ADHD might be seen as the “savage beast,” calmed by music. It can be used in the classroom to enhance understanding and improve behavior. They become risk-takers and sing as a group. Back to my English-teaching days… Yeah, a math teacher…
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Innovative Teaching Makes Happy Folks with ADHD
ADHD students. Reading/listening. Failure? Try creativity, collaboration, INNOVATION! Innovation is any teaching strategy, approach, technique, or tool that is used in a new way. It produces quantifiable gains for outcomes or student experiences. It proactively integrates creativity into the classroom. The first day of Algebra 1. The same old thing. “What do we need to…
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Students with ADHD Rock it with Learning Styles
Liberation! Study “your way.” Students with ADHD improve low self-esteem too. An individual’s learning style refers to the preferential way in which a student absorbs, processes, comprehends, and retains information. Students with ADHD utilize different styles and techniques. They tend to have a dominant style of learning and far less with others. Visual: Images,…
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Sports and ADHD: The Perfect Medication
Cutting-edge psychiatrists have begun recommending sports to support the side effects of ADHD. Try at least 40 minutes of activity per day. Factors to consider are medication, overall health, and scheduling. Choosing the right sport greatly impacts the factors of success. ADHD challenges structure, order, and distractability. For the most, teens’ most formidable opponents on…
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ADHD and Addiction? 30% – 50%
It is common for people with ADHD to turn to addictive substances such as alcohol, marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. Their attempt is often to improve abilities, help them feel better, or self-medicating. The activities work at first, providing them with ADHD relief. Ultimately, these high-risk behaviors can result in academic failure, incarcerations, or death from…
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Is it funny? No, it’s CYBERBULLYING?
Teens live for their cell phones…90% of ’em all. You think that the biggest challenges come from throwing them? No…cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of cell phones, instant messaging, email, chat rooms or social media used to intimidate, harass, threaten, or humiliate someone. It has increased among teens as they have more access to electronic…
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ADHD for Boys and Girls: They’re not the same. (RESEARCH)
Off the presses: ADHD does not manifest in the same way for boys and girls. Keep your eyes open when trying to diagnose girls for ADHD. Display greater academic impact. Lower levels of hyperactivity. Less peer aggressive than boys.
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Journaling for ADHD…Cures what ails ya!
Powerful tools: A pen coupled with paper. An impact on physical well-being. Just a few sentences a day can reduce stress, anger, sadness, and anxiety. What could be better than that? Traveling in the WayBack Machine… Oh no! Visiting a high school where everyone is taller than me…even the freshman. How can this happen? Is…
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Inclusion for ADHD? Why should you care?
Inclusion exists when individuals with disabilities (Special Education) are secured with opportunities to learn alongside their non-disabled peers in general education classrooms. They are provided services and accommodations to become part of a successful academic community. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) does not use the term “inclusion.” IDEA incorporates placement in least restrictive…
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“Just sound it out.” “Say what?” Reading 101 for teens and young adults with ADHD
Decoding is the letter-sound relation used to pronounce written words. It’s also what some might call reading. By improving skills, readers develop the ability to recognize words quickly and identify words they haven’t seen before. There is an ongoing contention regarding decoding interventions. Some focus on translating print into speech by rapidly matching letters. Others…