Listen to my 17 tips (that’s more than one per minute!) for helping your students with ADHD in the classroom. In response to a request from a friend, I decided to do a show aimed at helping teachers implement strategies to help these students. I hope you find them valuable!
I would love feedback from teachers, school social workers, school psychologists, and parents. What additional strategies do you like to use?
Prioritization can be a difficult skill for an adult with ADHD / ADD, but there are strategies that can help you build this still. Listen to this episode of Practical ADHD Strategies as I share practical strategies that you can use to prioritize their to do lists, their goals and their calendars.
How do you prioritize your work and personal life with ADHD? Share your tips below!
Are you overwhelmed by your disorganization? Does it feel like you can never dig out of the paper pile? Below, I am sharing my 5 favorite organization articles here at My Attention Coach for adults and students with ADHD / ADD.
Categorizing can help with both organization and time management by ensuring you spend time in high priority areas.
Take small steps for big success if you are disorganized or unorganized. The tips in this article can help you avoid the overwhelm that often comes with getting organized.
If you have ADHD, chances are that you have a disorganized desk. For simple ways to organize your disorganized desk under control, follow the tips in this article.
ADHD can make it hard to manage all of the paper you get at home and/or work. This can cause huge challenges with organizing. Using a tickler file can be a helpful way to gain control of the paper.
This is a newer concept for me. This article discusses how students might use tickler files to get organized.
Link to them below so we can all learn. Thanks!
Productivity is usually something we think about related to work, but it can be a challenge at home too. Especially when you include ADHD in the mix. From paying bills to doing dishes to getting ready for the day, it can all get overwhelming if you have ADHD. You can learn more by listening to my discussion with Virtual AD/HD Conference Founder and Director Jennifer Koretsky.
Listen here: Virtual AD/HD Conference Podcast Series
Developing strategies that work for you can help you to increase your productivity at home if you have ADHD. Join me on October 6, 2011 at 3:45pm as I teach a session at the 2011 Virtual AD/HD Conference to help you identify and develop those strategies. Check out the conference schedule to learn more about the conference and individual sessions. This conference is highly valuable and I hope you can join us!
What strategies do you use to increase your productivity at home?
I recently started a discussion on linked in about an article I wrote earlier this year. The article title is Start a Tickler File to Get Focused. A special education teacher in the group was wondering how she could use something like this with her high school students who have ADHD.
I think this concept can definitely help students. I have a couple ideas that students with ADHD can use tickler files to get organized and manage their school work. I would love your ideas and input. I think these ideas have merit, but I think they may need more detail to be ready for implementation. Please add your comments and suggestions below!
In my original article, I described a process where you would use an accordion file, numbered 1 – 31 to keep track of paperwork (i.e. bills) at home.
Can this work for students? I think YES, but I think it needs some adaptation. I think the 31 day accordion file either needs it’s own plastic container or it needs to stay in one classroom. If this accordion file ended up in a backpack or locker, I have visions of papers falling out, getting lost and leading to missed assignments. Not what we are shooting for! By keeping the file in one classroom, a homeroom or specific subject teacher could teach the students how to use it and help them build the habit.
If leaving a 31 day accordion file in a classroom or keeping it in a plastic container isn’t realistic, consider adapting a binder with a closing zipper to use as a tickler file.
Using a zipping binder will help to keep the papers in place while still tying the papers to when they are important.
How else could the concept of a tickler file be adapted for students?
