ADHD in the Classroom: An Interactive Experience

Note: This session is full & currently closed.

By Andrie Steen-Rulifson, M.Ed and Alex Voss, B.A. (Hons), PGCE
(E4 - Rm.203)

Presentation or Workshop Description:

ADHD behaviours pose many problems in the classroom.  A cooperative learning environment can be achieved through heightened awareness and applicable changes to the classroom ecology.

Participants will experience:

• a no-frills, fast-paced session
• a sensory stimuli enhanced classroom environment
• a look past the three primary clinically described behavioural symptoms and to what really occurs in the classroom
• helpful hints / strategies to lessen teacher emotional strain / while building student self-worth
• role-play active/reflective listening strategies
• a selection of collaborative learning activities utilising various groupings
•  applying strategies to content facilitation, instructional process, student products and classroom environments through cooperative group analysis and categorising.

Presentation or Workshop Learning Objectives (what participants should learn/take away from the presentation or workshop):

• will feel the effects of a stimuli enhanced classroom environment
• make connects between the experience in a stimuli enhanced classroom environment and the classroom experiences of students with ADHD
• enhance awareness and knowledge of a variety of effective strategies for the classroom
• enhance awareness and knowledge about the areas of the classroom ecology where strategies can be implemented
• utilize critical thinking skills to analyze and categorize strategies implementation