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| Teaching Kids with ADHD |  Teachers can better help student in the classroom when they understand the struggle of a student with ADHD. ADHD study better when their lives are ordered and predictable, that is why the most essential things teachers can do for those children is provide a calm, structured classroom environment with clear and consistent rules and regular classroom routines.
There are some suggestions for teachers which they can use in the classroom to help students who have ADHD:
• Show classroom rules. Classroom rules must be very clear and compact.
• Offer clear and short instructions for academic assignments.
• Break complex instructions into small parts.
• Demonstrate students how to use an assignment book to keep track of their homework and daily assignments.
• Every day post a daily schedule and homework assignments in the same place. Tape a copy on the child's desk.
• Plan academic subjects for the morning hours.
• Provide regular and frequent breaks.
• Seat the child away from distraction and next to students who will be positive role models.
• Since children with ADHD can become easily distracted in large groups, it is advisable to form small group settings when possible.
• Find a quiet spot in the classroom (such as a place in the back of the room) where students can go to do their work away from distractions.
• Train the student with ADHD to recognize "begin work" cues.
• Establish a secret signal with the child to use as a reminder when he or she is off task.
• Help the child with transitions between other classes and activities by offering clear directions and cues, such as a five-minute warning before the transition.
• To help children with ADHD stay on task, assign tutors. Tutors provide constant reinforcement and help them to do more work in less time.
• Concentrate on a specific behavior you wish to make better and reinforce it. If teachers pay attention to the behavior, praise the child, and award jobs and extra free time, they can reinforce target behaviors.
• Provide more positive reinforcements than negative consequences.
• Explain to the student what to do to avoid negative consequences.
• Reward target behaviors instantly and continuously.
• Use negative consequences only after a positive reinforcement program has enough time to become efficient.
• Deliver negative consequences in a firm, business-like way without emotion, lectures, or long-winded explanations.
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