Management Of ADHD In The Classroom

By Dennis Ward


Identifying children with rare disorders like hyperactivity can be very difficult unless one is aware of the condition and is very keen. Having a student with ADHD in The classroom can be challenging for a teacher because he/she will always be on the run to manage this student. This disorder is not very common and affects a population of only five percent. These kids tend to perform very poorly in class work and exams.

The symptoms of this condition can be categorized as the inattentive disorder or hyperactive-impulsive disorder. A child can thus suffer from one of the states or have the combination of the two of them. Symptoms of the inattentive disorder include being distracted easily, problems following instructions, lack of organization of work, unable to complete assignments, making very careless mistakes during school work or overlook details, etc.

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.

More so, before the teachers step in the classrooms, they must make sure that they have planned, organized and structured their lesson very well. More so, the lecture outline should touch on all the important aspects. The reason behind this is that the ability of these kids or students to remember and memorize meaningfully structured lessons is very high, unlike unorganized lectures.

Rules that are given to the children with this disorder are supposed to be defined very well. They should also be reinforced often using visual cues and be very specific to help the children to have a higher memory. Many other teaching modes can be employed to assist these students so that their performance in school and even outdoor activities can be improved.




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