Here are resources from Jim Wright's workshop, Focus the Attention & Channel the Energy: Strategies for Managing the Student With ADHD.
- PowerPoint: Focus the Attention & Channel the Energy: Strategies for Managing the Student With ADHD [1]
- Workshop Handout [2]
Understanding ADHD. What is ADHD and how does it impact behavior?
Supporting ADHD Through Strong Classroom Management. What management practices at the group level can help the behaviors of ADHD students?
Group Behavior Management Ideas:
- Using a Zone Defense System in Primary Classrooms [5]
- Zone Defense System: Form in MS Word. [6]
- Good Behavior Game [7]
- Teacher-Student Learning Game [8]
- The Color Wheel: Group-Wide Classroom Management [9]
- Defensive Management: 6 Steps to Organize the Classroom [10]
Creating Individual Behavior Plans. What are ideas to positively shape the behaviors of the oppositional or ADHD student?
- Antecedents, Positive Consequences, and Extinction Procedures: Secret Ingredients for Creating a Better Behavior Intervention Plan [11]
- Self-Check Behavior Checklist Maker. [12] This free online app allows teachers to create checkilists to teach behavior sequences and allow students to monitor their behavioral performance.
Reinforcing the Student. How can teachers use reinforcers to motivate students with ADHD to increase academic engagement?
- Jackpot! Reward Finder [13]. Use this online app to browse reward ideas to assemble your own reinforcer ('reward') survey to use with students.
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Measuring Behavior. How can teachers conveniently track ADHD behaviors?
- Behavior Report Card Maker. [17]This app allows you to create Behavior Report Cards, a convenient means of tracking ADH behaviors in the classroom.
Promoting Self-Management Skills.What are tools that can encourage ADHD students to better manage their own learning?
Interventions discussed at the workshop:
- Read-Ask-Paraphrase. [18] The student locates main idea and supporting details for each paragraph and summarizes them on a graphic organizer. RAP Interactive Form [19]
- Ask-Read-Tell. [20]The student creates a reading plan and sets reading goals, monitors understanding while reading, and reflects on the reading once finished. ART Interactive Form. [21]
- Learning Contracts [22]
- Version 1: Interactive Learning Contract| [23]Example of a Completed Learning Contract [24]
- Version 2: Interactive Learning Contract [25]|Example of a Completed Learning Contract [26]
- Student Self-Regulation: Work-Planning Conference: Description [27]
- Student Independent Work: Planning Tool: Interactive Form [28]