While much has been said about the rise in their numbers, it must be noted that these students are far from being slow learners. What this means is that teachers and educational professionals are faced with a very realistic, critical need to read current research in Attention Deficit Disorder and find new, creative methods of providing instruction for educating children in today s society. For some teachers this is an exciting adventure. For others, it means a giant leap out of their comfort zone and into something for which they have not been educated. Teachers today can no longer rely on pencil-paper tasks, drawings on a chalk board, and basic rote memory as their sole tools of instruction.
Most children respond and learn best with hands-on learning.
This means that rather than teach a lesson about the weather from a book, teachers will create lessons where students will measure actual rainfall, create a class graph of temperature changes, and study weather technology by visiting a weather or television station. Children who love to draw will be fascinated by capturing clouds with their own disposable cameras and creating wonderful murals of their own cloud artwork. Some students such as my Nate, mentioned earlier, have a difficult time in a normal reading lesson. It s not that they refuse to learn, it is that the material they are given does not appeal to their need for stimulation. I would say no.