PART 5: HOW TO...
Raise Your Hand, Lower Your Voice
Has the principal already called? Teacher sent home notes? Your behavior-modification strategies fizzled? That's because the key to improving behavior at school is understanding why misbehavior happens, and responding in a way that makes sense to our kids' ADHD brains. Use these strategies to get started at school and home.
13 Ways to Head Off Disruptive Behavior
Children with ADHD may be mislabeled aggressive, defiant, or bullies thanks to impulsive physical and social interactions. At-school and at-home solutions for parents and teachers.
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A Teacher's Guide to ADHD & Classroom Behavior
How to anticipate misbehavior and implement strategies that manage behavior in the present, while teaching skills over the long-term. Download now »
Clear Expectations, Consistent Rewards
A Daily Report Card allows teachers and parents to take specific aim at any problem behaviors interfering with a child’s success during the school day. Learn how to use this powerful tool.
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Daily Report Card Template
Use this form to document daily challenges, measure improvements, and fix problems with concrete expectations and rewards. Get the template »
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Sept. 5: Life Skills That Matter: What Every High School Student Should Learn Before Graduation
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Sept. 20: The ADHD Guide to Productive Parent-Teacher Cooperation
Classroom Equity
Establishing clear expectations, incentives, and consequences for all students creates a community that fosters real learning. How to do it without singling out kids with ADHD.
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Never Revoke Recess!
"When teachers deny recess for poor classroom behavior or late work, they hurt not only their students with ADHD, but the whole classroom." Continue reading »
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How to Greenlight Better Behavior
The Stoplight System is a popular behavioral strategy for children with ADHD who need clear expectations, visual reminders, and positive incentives.
A TEACHER ASKS...
Impulsivity in the Classroom
"One of my students calls across the room to a friend during classwork and gets up from his seat without asking. How can we work on this?" See the answer
Capturing and collaring Utah prairie dogs
What: Tomorrow afternoon, for the first time ever, DWR biologists will be placing GPS collars on Utah prairie dogs just outside Cedar City. The team will start capturing prairie dogs in the morning and then, after a quick health checkup, will attach the collars and return them to the wild. The collars will provide continual data about the prairie dogs and their locations on the landscape. The biologists hope to learn valuable information about the animals’ behavior and use that data to improve management efforts. Biologists will also be trapping and relocating Utah prairie dogs in the area throughout the month of September.
The collaring project is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 29. Capture work will begin at 8 a.m., and the collaring will happen around 1 p.m. Ongoing trapping and relocation work will happen throughout September.
Where: The area just outside Cedar City (about 15 minutes from town)
