ADHD and Social Issues. Parents ask this question so often; I’m surprised a book hasn’t been written on this one topic.
Everyone seems to think kids are maturing at later ages now more so than even in the recent past. It appears that this delay in reaching some level of maturity is probably related to changes in our society. Kids in countries where styles of living aren’t so relaxed tend to show signs of maturity at a younger age. Is this the price we pay for all of our technologic advances? I’ll let you be the judge. Everyone matures at a different age, at different rates and reaches levels of maturity that can vary so widely as to make it difficult to say when it has been reached. This is probably one of the first things parents notice when a child is beginning the stages of “growing up”. As kids mature they stop answering questions with huh? Some teens develop social skills before their teen years. For the parents of most teens, this may be one of the most demanded and sought after signs of maturing. Secondary Weekly Planning Guide Template. Teaching Students with Attention Deficit Disorder.
If you find this page useful, please share it. Links to 40 Articles and Ebooks on Teaching Students with ADHD 8-10% of students in school have ADHD. These articles and ebooks will: help ADHD students learn more and with less struggle reduce the ADHD student's stress and ODD improve the whole classroom environment reduce the teacher's stress As someone who used to be a teacher for 5 years, and who's been an Adult ADHD coach since 2003, I prefer to focus on the practical vs. theoretical articles.
ADHD is the number two inherited genetic condition after height, 80%. Hint to teachers, if a child has ADHD, it's important the parents get screened for it too, if not for themselves, then for the benefit of their child. If mommy or daddy or both are in denial or mimimization about their ADHD, they will often be in denial or mimimization about their child's ADD. Quick Harvard Adult ADHD Screening Test, and 10 ways to manage adult ADHD. Many Adders with a high IQ go undiagnosed.
Homework Checklist: Printable Graphic Organizer for Students. How to Stop Trying So Hard (or Just Be Who You Are) God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. – William Shakespeare For most of us, the plan is to have an extraordinary life.
Our time in this world is so precious, and brief, it just makes sense to get everything we can out of each day. And then, by building one day upon the next, we can create a life full of meaning. However, something can happen along the way when attempting to find this meaning – we begin trying too hard. We run the risk of trying to convince ourselves that compromise serves us better than our true passion and life’s purpose. I have seen this many times in my professional career. Long hours spent away from the people who matter the most, agreeing to decisions and directions that are not aligned with our personal values, and saying things we really don’t mean, but feel compelled to say anyway, are all examples of trying too hard and not living within our hearts.
We can try too hard in our personal relationships as well. Willingness to be yourself. Student Edge. TeacherTube - Teach the World. Executive Functioning and Learning Disabilities. I have often written about learning strategies, and how important it is to help students become “strategic” in their approach to learning, and I discussed some ways that teachers can promote student learning by both teaching and reinforcing the use of effective strategies to their students and by imbedding effective teaching strategies into their classroom instruction.
What was missing from that discussion was any real focus on the kinds of “thinking” students need to do when they are confronted with different types of learning challenges and opportunities. These “thinking ingredients” fall under the umbrella term “executive functioning.” A Working Definition of “Executive Functioning” “Executive functioning” is a term used to describe the many different cognitive processes that individuals use to control their behavior and to get ready to respond to different situations.