lundi 5 février 2018

Managing ADHD In The Classroom

By Dennis Ward


It is a bit difficult to note that a child or student is suffering from a disorder that is caused by hyperactivity and impulsiveness. It is thus challenging to manage ADHD in the classroom especially if you are not aware that the kid has the disorder. This disorder is common in children and affects approximately 5 percent of populations. These kids tend to be poor performers because they lack concentration and they have difficulties in making friends.

This condition is usually classified into two categories which are hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive behaviors. Consequently, a kid can suffer from inattentive or hyperactivity disorders or even have the two of them in combination. The symptoms associated with inattentiveness are failure of being organized, trouble completing assignments, and inability to follow given instructions, making many careless mistakes during class work and overlooking details.

The hyperactivity disorder is associated with occasional squirming or fidgeting in class.Unable to stay at a single place for quite some time, cannot be quiet while playing, interrupting other people and intruding in their conversations, being jumpy all the time and climbing places that are inappropriate, answering questions promptly even before the question is read out completely and many other related behaviors.

This makes the kids be very poor performers in school due to lack of attention. Additionally, this disorder can make the kids leave assignments, tasks or exams unfinished hence the reason for failure. More so, they tend to face a lot of disciplinary actions especially when teachers are unaware of the condition. Therefore these kids will be punished because of making noise in class or failure to finish assignments.

To assist these children, it is important to let the teachers know that your kid or kids are suffering from this kind of disorder. Therefore, these teachers can make sure that they give very brief or short tasks to the students and ask for immediate feedback. More so, the teachers can break apart long projects so that they become manageable by the children.

To add on that, teachers should give direct instructions to the children. Therefore, they should work with kids one on one. Unlike the other children, the concentration span for these children is so low thus teachers must be especially attentive to them. If they are helped in this way, they will improve their performance because they will have more concentration.

On top of that, teachers must ensure that they organize and structure their lessons well before they go to the classrooms. This is because having a good outline can help the students to understand quickly. More so, these students usually have the good memory of materials that have been meaningfully structured. Therefore, it is upon teachers and tutors to ensure that they organize their lessons well.

To conclude, the students should also be given rules that are precise and well defined. These rules should be accompanied by visual codes that are specific so that they can easily remember. Many other modes of teaching are available for the teachers to use and assist kids who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to help them fit in a normal classroom setting.




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