Strategies to support students with ADHD

Zielsetzung / Objectifs

Knowledge
The participants will learn about:
- general signs of ADHD
- the most beneficial way to handle situations
- where to turn if there is an issue.

Know-how
The participants will be able to:
- identify issues before they occur
- work with students more productively
- provide more effective help when needed (eg study habit body doubling instead of sending to the library).

Posture
The participants will:
- have a deeper understanding of students with ADHD
- have a deeper understanding of how they can affect and impact said students
- know how to support the wider community eg parents of said students, SEN staff, etc.
- understand that having ADHD does not make a student a bad student but teachers have a huge impact on how a student feels about themselves.

Inhalt / Contenu

- Introduction: things that help ADHD-ers will also help Neurotypicals
- study habit help: body doubling and the different ways to do this, motivation e.g. treats, brain breaks for when your brain just won’t continue (AND learning to accept this & move on productively with no self-shame!)
- coping with medication: there is no cure for ADHD, however one still has to remember to take medication appropriately which is really hard, whilst figuring out the correct dosage there could be side effects like tiredness, may not help at all
- Focus in class:
* generally: 100's of reasons why focus is hard; allowed to go off to study, make subject interesting for ADHD-er, headphones, allowed to move around at the back of the class, fidget toys
* staff & parents: no one ADHD-er is the same as the next; things like extra time in an exam may not help, or it may not help in that specific exam
* organisation: losing fidget toys, pay a € 5 refundable deposit, only have inexpensive toys, try to do things immediately, will probably have to change regularly the best method to avoid boredom, label everything, masking tape is easy, why an ADHD-er may be obsessive, those closest understanding, simplicity / minimalism
- ending: Q&A if time; could pre submit.

Arbeitsformen / Approche méthodologique

Workshop.

Referent, Referentin / Formateur, formatrice

Antonia Quinton, ADHD coaching