EP. 18: The 10 Things I Wish Every Teacher Knew About Their ADHD Students

In this podcast, Tracy talks about the 10 things she wishes every teacher knew about their ADHD students. She decided to do a podcast on this subject because she noticed that many women in her Facebook group really struggled in school and are still struggling in school despite the fact that they are clearly bright.

Tracy believes that if you can understand how your brain works, then you can start to identify your strengths and build hacks using those strengths. She believes that most ADHD students spend too much time focusing on their weaknesses. Tracy talks about the one thing that is most indicative of success for people with ADHD and what successful people with ADHD say is much harder to deal with than the actual ADHD traits or symptoms.

Learn what kind of educators make the best teachers for students with ADHD. Are ADHD students smart? Discover what strengths are associated with ADHD. Do you know about the seven intellectual domains and which ones school teaches to? Hint: there are only two.

Learn what the ADHD brain is wired for and why it's so important that students care about what they're studying. Tracy talks about why she thinks ADHD is misnamed and why memorizing things that the ADHD student doesn't care about is so difficult for him/her. Learn how we actually learn best. Discover why these students need to buy in to a strategy or plan in order to be successful with it.

Hear what Tracy thinks is the most useless comment that a teacher can make on a progress report about an ADHD student and why positive emotion is so important to all students, but especially those with ADHD. Learn what happens to students who rebel against school and the education system.

Discover the three ways that ADHD students can learn and why structure and consistency are so important for them. Tracy talks about positive illusory bias and how it affects ADHD students and why self-control is so much harder for these students.

Discover the number one strength of most ADHD students and what the one common denominator tends to be for ADHD students who perform to their potential.
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• Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos
• Smart but Scattered

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