A Writing Activity to Help Students with Attention Disorders

[gavint]

Check out this article, "A Writing Activity to Help Students with Attention Disorders." (http://www.writingproject.org/cs/nwpp/print/nwpr/2363)

Dr. Judy Willis, neurologist, author, and middle school teacher-consultant, devised a strategy to reproduce what learning feels like for those with attention disorders. She writes about her classroom's results and how teachers might replicate the lesson themselves.

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

great, another nonteacher that has "Dr" in front of their name expect me to follow advice made because they are so enlightened :rolleyes:

attention disorders are made up problems

[JRSFD]

great, another nonteacher that has "Dr" in front of their name expect me to follow advice made because they are so enlightened :rolleyes:

attention disorders are made up problems

Wewt! CNO is back.

[Chocolate_New_Orleans]

if you only knew how many workshops, inservices, and other meetings that have "enlightened non-teachers" or people who used to teach now they tell others how to teach. 99% of the crap that spews from these expert's mouths are just that, CRAP. In some utopian fantasy classroom, where EVERY kid wants to be there, EVERY kid wants to learn, NO kid has issues they are bringing from home, these plans would work. However, these enlightened non-teachers have never had to deal with Johnny missing 20 days in a 9 weeks, or Susy coming to class tardy by 10 minutes 30 times. They've never dealt with 10 kids not having pencil or paper on a daily basis. And the former teachers seem to have forgotten or not realized that things aren't the same today, as it was for them when they last taught in a classroom 10 years ago.

My favorite was this year. Guidance counselors were giving classroom management workshops. Give me a F'n break!!! that's like a librarian telling me the best way to manage my 35 in 6th period. If you've never had a class load, or never had a full schedule of classes... STFU about how to tell me how to manage my classroom.

[Caroll]

Hi,

Just read the article. Thanks for that. Any little bit helps and new ideas are always welcome. I will now go and sit and study it in depth to see how best to adapt our classroom ideas to it.

[sschilli]

Thanks for sharing the article. Sometimes I share my difficulties with distractions when someone is whispering, another is tapping a pen or pencil, and I am trying to listen to a student who is trying to ask a question all at the same time. The ADD kids in the classroom share empathetic looks, smiles and nodding heads. I think it would be a good activity to do with a class, and maybe if the other students feel the same anxiety associated with the distractions and trying to concentrate, they might be more concsious of their own behaviors in the future. Who knows?

[Caroll]

I am doing an AD/HD seminar next month and practiced this with my family last night. Wow, It works! Another thing you might want to look at is a video by Dr Rck Lavoie 'How difficult can it be' It is something I show at workshops here. It also explains the difficulties LD kids experience. It sure helped me to understand them (and myself)

[Unregistered]

if you only knew how many workshops, inservices, and other meetings that have "enlightened non-teachers" or people who used to teach now they tell others how to teach. 99% of the crap that spews from these expert's mouths are just that, CRAP. In some utopian fantasy classroom, where EVERY kid wants to be there, EVERY kid wants to learn, NO kid has issues they are bringing from home, these plans would work. However, these enlightened non-teachers have never had to deal with Johnny missing 20 days in a 9 weeks, or Susy coming to class tardy by 10 minutes 30 times. They've never dealt with 10 kids not having pencil or paper on a daily basis. And the former teachers seem to have forgotten or not realized that things aren't the same today, as it was for them when they last taught in a classroom 10 years ago.

My favorite was this year. Guidance counselors were giving classroom management workshops. Give me a F'n break!!! that's like a librarian telling me the best way to manage my 35 in 6th period. If you've never had a class load, or never had a full schedule of classes... STFU about how to tell me how to manage my classroom.








Ditto. I hate it when inservice teachers repackage basic behavior management practices as some new strategy that well allow every child to "cooperate sucessfully". The reality is some children are defiant and need consequences. If neithor the parents nor the administrators are willing to step up to the plate then the child will not change. Imagine how much more effective the average child's education would be if the students with severe behave problems were sent to an alternative school.