Describe three strategies that classroom teachers can use to successfully teach students who have ADHD. Explain three teacher characteristics that assist teachers in working successfully with students who have ADHD and explain how you can demonstrate those characteristics.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Answers should include three of these strategies: Use novelty in instruction and directions, maintain a schedule, prepare students for transitions and provide support in completing transitions, emphasize time limits, provide organizational assistance, provide rewards consistently and often, be brief and clear, arrange the environment to facilitate attention, provide optimal stimulation, allow for movement and postures other than sitting, and promote active participation through effective questioning techniques. Answers should include three of these characteristics and provide examples of how students can demonstrate them: personal characteristics of understanding, compassion, patience, concern, respect, responsiveness, and a sense of humor.