Tips for High School Teachers with ADHD Students: Organizing Your Students

Thank you to all of our professional educatorsmake sure that you ADD ADHD students have
who dedicate themselves to our children! Weactually turned in their work.
know how difficult it can be working with ADHDWrite schedule and timelines on the board each
children, so here are your teacher tips for theday. Provide due dates for assignments each day.
week, brought to you by the ADHD InformationDivide longer assignments into smaller sections
Library and This is a sampling of over 500and provide due dates or times for the
classroom interventions for your use atcompletion of each section.
Here are some tips on organizing your ADHDYour ADD ADHD students will function better
students. Remember, the best interventions arewhen able to anticipate times requiring increased
the ones that will help all of your students beconcentration. A visual representation of the day's
more successful, not just the ADHD students.schedule will provide another opportunity to
Few ADD or ADHD kids are naturally wellinternalize classroom routine.
organized. Most are space-cadets. They are oftenHopefully these will help the ADHD students in
well known for taking two hours to do a twentyyour classroom to be more successful. You can
minute assignment, and then forgetting to turn itlearn more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
in the next day (Hint: it really IS in their backpack).disorder at the ADHD Information Library.
Please take the extra six seconds required to