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Module 1076

Engaging Students with Diagnosed Attention Disorders: Maximize Student Potential

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Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $225 complete

What You'll Learn

Did you know that nearly 10% of your students may suffer from some sort of attention disorder? Sadly, this number will continue to grow in the years to come. The successful educators of tomorrow must learn how to adapt and respond to this growing challenge. In this module, you’ll discover the most effective and up-to-date strategies for teaching students with diagnosed attention disorders.

Led by Ellen Arnold, Ed.D, a noted expert on attention-deficit disorders, this module will equip you with the tools and techniques to help you reach students with ADD/ADHD. You’ll learn how to eliminate boredom in your classroom and cultivate an environment that gets the most out of students who struggle with attention disorders.

In this module, you will:

• Improve your understanding of ADD/ADHD
• Expand your toolbox of strategies for working with students with ADD/ADHD
• Develop strategies to personalize instruction for students with attention disabilities
• Encounter dozens of proven strategies for preventing boredom

Highlights

Proven Strategies

• What works vs. what doesn’t
• Dispelling the commonly-held myths regarding ADD/ADHD
• Classroom rules that help engage distractible students
• Putting the ball in your students’ court

Effective Classroom Management Techniques

• Successful motivational theories
• Keeping your class running smoothly and efficiently
• Properly understanding the disability
• Preventing boredom by increasing creativity in students

Tools You Can Use Tomorrow

• Providing students with self-assessment tools
• Helping students discover their expertise
• Cultivating an environment of self-motivation
• Tapping into students’ individual strengths

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

• Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
• Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
• Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
• Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
• Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance - whenever you need it.
• You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.

Your Instructors

Dr. Ellen Arnold has a passion for teaching and learning, which she has carried with her to Thomas Reynolds Center for Excellence in Education at Daemen College, where she currently teaches graduate students. She also facilitates online courses and acts as a consultant to teachers and school district staff. In addition to various publications, Dr. Arnold regularly presents workshops, seminars, and keynotes.

Materials & Assessment

Lectures	Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD. Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park; and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources	Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment	If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion, you do not need to complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge	To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module . If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.

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