If you are both a teacher yourself and the parent of a learning disabled child, shouldn’t it be easy for you to ensure your child receives appropriate services, including testing and IEP implementation? Maybe, maybe not. Check out one mother’s perspective as parent, colleague, and advocate.
Attention deficit disorder symptoms often interfere with classroom expectations and impact nearly all of the child’s activities and interactions. But educators have developed methods and strategies that have proven successful with children with ADD. Learn some specific teaching strategies that both challenge children with ADD by presenting then with interesting activities designed to improve behavior and learning, while simultaneously providing them the support they require.
In this excerpt from the novel Project June Bug, we meet second-year English teacher Jenna Bianchi who is forced to make a choice: Give up on the defiant tenth grader with ADHD who is threatening to ruin her career, or help him harness his creativity and find a better path. Here, Jenna faces off with the rebellious student — just one of many challenges she will have to overcome.
Up to forty percent of children with ADHD demonstrate oppositional behaviors, and that’s not counting the general non-compliance often associated with executive function deficits. Mark Bertin strategies for parents to use to cope with oppositional behaviors.
Teens. One minute they love you. They want your input and guidance. Next minute, they’re super critical and act as if you’re an idiotic dork. They want you to be there, but only when they think they need you. They can’t figure out why you don’t know when to butt out! You can be so stupid, not to mention unfair and out to ruin their lives.
The Chicago Office of the Office for Civil Rights developed these materials in response to numerous requests from educators, parents and advocates in Wisconsin to clarify the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, in the area of elementary and secondary education.
Strategies that promote success for students with ADD and ADHD are described including behavior management, modification, preparing your students to learn at the beginning of the lesson, keeping the students on task, making the lessons more interesting and homework.
