| Juggling the teaching curriculum, energetic students | | | | the teaching material. |
| and individual students needs can be difficult at | | | | 7. Engage students by addressing them directly, |
| the best of times. Throw in some kids with | | | | making them answer questions, or respondign |
| learning difficulties and you've got yourself a real | | | | with handsignals. |
| challenge. | | | | 8. Novel ways of teaching, such as role playing, |
| Here are eleven tips to cater for students with | | | | can be very enaging for students, especially if |
| learning difficulties: | | | | they have attention difficutlies. I have taught ADD |
| 1. Provide an outline to ADHD students with key | | | | ADHD students the history of the Revolutionary |
| concepts or vocabulary prior to lesson | | | | War in the parking lot of the school, using cars, |
| presentation. | | | | trees, and other objects to represent events and |
| 2. ADHD kids are easily bored, even by you. | | | | places in history. This can work well. |
| Increase your teaching speed a little - but be | | | | 9. Let your creativity loose! It's hard to keep |
| mindful of when it's too much. Include a variety of | | | | students engaged, no matter how good a teacher |
| activities during each lesson appropriate to | | | | you are. By considering that you actually motivate |
| elementary school. | | | | and entertain your students, your teaching style |
| 3. Engage students with muti-sensory teaching | | | | will become more engaging. Kids will learn much |
| material but be aware that too much audio-visual | | | | better when they are interested and excited |
| material can be distracting for ADD students. Use | | | | about a topic. Enjoy what you're teaching and be |
| entertaining photos, pictures, sounds and noises | | | | excited! |
| that are related to the teaching material. | | | | 10. ADD and ADHD students will be more |
| 4. Make lessons brief or break longer | | | | responsive if they are stimulated and engaged in |
| presentations into discrete segments. | | | | the situation. Mix your teaching style up by |
| 5. A great lesson or presentation should aim to | | | | varying pitch, tone and speed of voice. This will |
| involve ALL students actively. You can engage | | | | keep your students engaged. |
| espcially difficult students by asking them to help | | | | 11. Your ADD ADHD elementary school aged |
| the class and make notes on the board. | | | | student would probably find lessons that |
| 6. Ask your attention deficit students to form | | | | emphasize "hands-on" activities highly engaging. |
| mental images of the topics you're talking about. | | | | If your challenged students do fall behind in the |
| Your students can share their images with each | | | | classroom, it may be worth investigating other |
| other so you can be sure that they're visualizing | | | | options to increase their learning ability. |