Eddie
Strategies to Help
ADD/ADHD Students
From Mrs. Potter explanation
of Eddies habits it seems like he could have ADD or ADHD. He seems like he
cannot focus his attention on one thing for a long period of time without
getting distracted and start fiddling with something else. Mrs. Potter needs to
come up with a way to gain his attention throughout the entire lesson.
In the Breitfelder article it talks about all the different strategies
you can use to keep ADD/ADHD students focused and engaged in your lesson. One of
the first things it talks about is always having visual support available for
these students. Things like having a schedule on the board for the whole class
to see. This would help keep him keep track of what is going to be going on and
it would help to clearly define what he is expected to do.
Another thing that Mrs. Potter can
do to make sure Eddie is absorbing her information is to use manipulative during
her lessons. For example, say Mrs. Potter is giving a lesson and she is using her
own manipulatives to teach the lesson, she should give Eddie his own set of
manipulatives so he can focus on what he is doing and not begin to day dream.
The manipulatives will keep him absorbed in the lesson and prevent his mind
from wandering to other places. When Mrs. Potter gave the lesson about tadpoles
she didn’t have anything for Eddie to fiddle with that would enhance his
learning. By giving him a manipulative he might have been able to answer her
question about frogs.
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