Teaching Strategies for Students with ADHD

Hours: 24 / Access Length: 180 Days / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced

Course Overview:

This course will provide you with techniques, strategies and interventions to help students with ADHD succeed in the classroom. You will review the characteristics of students with ADHD and how a diagnosis is made. You will look at medications and treatments for students who are diagnosed. Lastly, you will review concrete steps you can take, as an educator, to support these students in your classroom.

Students will:

• Review what it means for a student to be diagnosed with ADHD
• Learn how students with ADHD are treated for their disorder
• Learn techniques, strategies and methods to support ADHD students in the classroom

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Key Information for Understanding and Managing ADHD

After this first lesson you will better understand ADHD and how it can be managed. You will learn about common treatments and medications. You will also begin to explore do's and don'ts for teachers.

Lesson 2: Managing the Challenge of ADHD Disorders

This second lesson looks at how you plan to manage ADHD behaviors. You will explore classroom strategies to manage and regulate student behavior at both the classroom and individual level.

Lesson 3: Instructional and Academic Strategies and Support

The third lesson goes beyond behavior to focus on the academics of students with ADHD. Differentiation methods, learning strategies and study skills are just a few of the areas that will be addressed.

Lesson 4: Personal Stories and Case Studies

Lesson four provides you the opportunity to review personal stories of students with ADHD. You can learn from their experiences and see things from the student and parent points of view.

Lesson 5: Collaborative Efforts and School Responsibilities in Helping Children with ADHD

Working with ADHD students should not be a one on one venture. This lesson explores how you can work with others in the school to help students with ADHD. You will review laws associated with ADHD students and learn ways you can work collaboratively in their best interest.

Lesson 6: Additional Supports and Strategies

Students with ADHD often feel stress other students do not. This lesson will review some supports and strategies like music and relaxtion techniques that can help you students focus on what is important while remaining calm and happy.

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.