Managing ADHD at school
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These e-learning modules will help you understand ADHD and suggest accommodations and strategies that will help raise the achievement of your students with ADHD (and everyone else too).
And why does supporting students with ADHD matter? The benefits for you as a teacher are it will make your job more satisfying and less stressful. But the benefits for students with ADHD are literally life changing. When ADHD is poorly supported or undiagnosed it can be associated with higher rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, drug use and criminality. But ADHD is also associated with higher levels of creativity and problem solving – and gives many highly successful people their drive and their edge. |
Thanks to the Sutherland Self Help Trust for their grant, which enabled us to develop these eLearning modules for you.
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In these eLearning modules you'll discover:
Think you have a student with ADHD in your class?
There’s a couple of students in your classroom who you find challenging to manage.
One is really quiet – she often looks like she’s day-dreaming. You’ve caught her out a couple of times because she missed hearing the homework tasks. Because of this, she’s actually started to fall behind.
The other is completely the opposite – from the minute he arrives, he’s constantly on the move and talking to others. It’s exhausting just watching him.
You’ve noticed them both at lunchtime, not paying attention when with their friends and missing social cues at times, either because they are too busy or daydreaming.
If your student does have ADHD this means they have to work much harder to control and filter attention, behaviours, emotions that come naturally to others of the same age. This is the nature of the "disordered" part. It commonly results in significant fatigue and an even more profound loss of control by the end of the school day.
Having ADHD has many benefits, and you want the best for them. However, not knowing how to manage certain behaviours can be frustrating - especially when you're managing 30 other students as well.
One is really quiet – she often looks like she’s day-dreaming. You’ve caught her out a couple of times because she missed hearing the homework tasks. Because of this, she’s actually started to fall behind.
The other is completely the opposite – from the minute he arrives, he’s constantly on the move and talking to others. It’s exhausting just watching him.
You’ve noticed them both at lunchtime, not paying attention when with their friends and missing social cues at times, either because they are too busy or daydreaming.
If your student does have ADHD this means they have to work much harder to control and filter attention, behaviours, emotions that come naturally to others of the same age. This is the nature of the "disordered" part. It commonly results in significant fatigue and an even more profound loss of control by the end of the school day.
Having ADHD has many benefits, and you want the best for them. However, not knowing how to manage certain behaviours can be frustrating - especially when you're managing 30 other students as well.
