Enabling Success for Students with ADHD at School

Why supporting students with ADHD matters

These eLearning modules will help you understand ADHD and suggest accommodations and strategies that help you raise the achievement of your students with ADHD (and everyone else too!)

Not meeting the social, emotional, behavioural and educational needs of students with ADHD in the short-term can lead to a greater likelihood of falling academically behind their non-ADHD peers in their year, suspension, or expulsion. In the longer term, it can contribute to higher rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, drug use and criminality.

​Conversely, meeting these needs can result in many benefits for you as their teacher. For example, it can make your job less stressful and more satisfying. Additionally, the benefits for students with ADHD (and the rest of your class) can be life-changing and enable them to focus on strengths such as creativity and problem-solving, giving many highly successful people their drive and edge.

Thanks to the Sutherland Self Help Trust for their grant, which enabled us to develop these eLearning modules for you.

In these eLearning modules, you'll discover:

1. Understanding students with ADHD at school

  • 1.1 What is ADHD?
  • 1.2 The three types of ADHD
  • 1.3 How ADHD impacts learning
  • 1.4 What ADHD looks like in the classroom
  • 1.5 What it feels like to have ADHD
  • 1.6 How to find out more about ADHD
  • 1.7 Summary

2. Accommodations and strategies for supporting students with ADHD (and everyone else)

  • 2.1 ADHD and managing behaviour
  • 2.2 The importance of school-wide awareness and understanding of ADHD
  • 2.3 Accommodations in the classroom and at school
  • 2.4 Strategies students with ADHD can learn
  • 2.5 Technology and other tools to support students with ADHD
  • 2.6 Summary

3. Support pathways for students with [un]diagnosed ADHD

  • 3.1 Signs of undiagnosed (or insufficiently managed) ADHD and taking action
  • 3.2 Access existing information and observe
  • 3.3 Share and discuss information with colleagues, whānau and medical experts
  • 3.4 Assessing and diagnosing ADHD
  • 3.5 Helping your student manage their ADHD with medication and plan for support 
  •  3.6 Summary