Tips for High School Teachers with ADHD Students: Presenting Your Lesson

Thank you to all of our professional educatorsteachers are now using PowerPoint presentations
who dedicate themselves to our children! Weor Astound presentations for their students with
know how difficult it can be working with ADHDgreat effect.
children, so here are your teacher tips for theProvide self-correcting materials for immediate
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Library and This is a sampling of over 500Use computer assisted instruction, both in terms
classroom interventions for your use atof the student at a computer, and also in terms
Here are some tips on presenting your lessonof presenting information via PowerPoint
ADHD students. Remember, the bestpresentations.
interventions are the ones that will help all of yourUse cooperative learning activities, particularly
students be more successful, not just the ADHDthose that assign each teen in a group a specific
students.role or piece of information that must be shared
Try to provide an outline with the key conceptswith the group. Pair students to check work.
or vocabulary prior to lesson presentation. TheProvide peer tutoring to help ADD ADHD
students can follow along and see the mainstudent's review concepts.
concepts and terms as you present the lesson.Let ADD ADHD students share recently learned
ADHD kids are easily bored, even by you. Try toconcepts with struggling peers. Use peer tutoring
increase the pace of lesson presentation. Resistwhenever possible. Older students to help your
the temptation to get sidetracked. Get excitedattention deficit students, and perhaps allowing him
about your lesson! And communicate yourto tutor a younger student.
excitement to your students!The more exciting a subject is to an ADD ADHD
Include a variety of learning activities during eachstudents, the better he will learn.
lesson. Use multi-sensory presentations, butHopefully these will help the ADHD students in
screen audio?visual aids to be sure thatyour classroom to be more successful. You can
distractions are kept to a minimum. For example,learn more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
be sure interesting pictures and or sounds relatedisorder at the ADHD Information Library.
directly to the material to be learned. Many