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?
A colleague recommended a blog post from Seth Godin titled Back to (the Wrong) School. I found Seth’s perspective interesting. He describes the education system as designed to develop employees for jobs available in 1925. The world has changed a lot since then of course and Seth states, “As long as we embrace (or even accept) standardized testing, fear of science, little attempt at teaching leadership and most of all, the bureaucratic imperative to turn education into a factory itself, we’re in big trouble.”
I think this presents an interesting challenge for all of us, especially those interested in helping students with ADHD. What would you change in the education system to help us better prepare for the workplace and economy of the future?
Are you going back to college this fall or just starting? Do you have ADHD? Other time management or attention-related concerns? It is important that you self-advocate for yourself! This will help set you up for a successful semester.
In college, you have less outside structure than you did in high school. If you are starting college, this will, of course be new for you and you may want to think about how to create structure for yourself. A few ideas to get started with self-advocating are listed below…
For more information about self-advocating, I recommend “Self Advocacy for College Students” on www.ldonline.org.
It may seem like school is a long way off still, but these last few weeks of summer will be gone before we know it. Get better prepared with some of my tips and others that are linked below. When you decide what you will do, decide when to do it and honor your commitment to yourself.
The following ideas and suggestions are at the top of my list:
Which of these ideas sounds good to you? What are you doing to get yourself or your children ready to go back to school? Share your ideas in our comments.
