Jacqueline's+Technology+Assignment

As ADHD is becoming a disorder that attacks many of our students and close attention must be paid. As educators we must be on top of the new findings to help our students with this disorder. We must provide ways and tools to help them succeed in the classroom and have a better life. In the article “Attention Deficit Disorders and Gifted Students: What Do We Really Know?” (2000) By: Felice Kaufmann, M. Layne Kalbfleisch, and F. Xavier Castellanos, is said that this deficit it should not be overlooked nor misdiagnosed. As teachers we can make observations but we need specialist to make a diagnostic. Another part of the article is to know if our students are ADHD, Gifted or both. Thinking that students with ADHD are less capable of learning is a mistake; they are as capable as their classmates, their only difference is that they need a different approach and different assessments. My intention here is to give some of my ideas of the assessments I have tried with my ADHD students and that has helped them, yet every case is different. Knowing their IEP can also help the educator determine what are the best ways to teach and help the student.
 * 1) Close monitoring while working independently, because they have an attention span and asking them or seeing that they are on task is something to help them
 * 2) Give less exercises than the rest. For example is they are working with twenty problems, let him or her have ten.
 * 3) For reading provide them with different reading charts that helps him or her record what he or she has read.
 * 4) During exams make sure he has understood the directions. If the directions are told to him or her instead or having them read it works better.
 * 5) Some cases a verbal exam can help the student too.

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