ADHD

Every teacher will teach a child with ADHD.  Children are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or more commonly referred to as ADHD all the time.  These students are typically diagnosed because of their inability to stay focused, impulsive behaviors, and/ or hyperactivity.  In summary, students with ADHD have difficulty sorting out what is important because of too much stimulus.  Instead of listing to you teach they are distracted by the murmurer the vent is making. Students with ADHD who have the same IQ as students in their class are more likely to score lower on a test. 

A study was done by BLANK which found three important changes of development pertaining to ADHD.  First, young children have a hard time adjusting to different demands.  For instance if you tell him/her to look at a globe then took look for a city then to the country, this narrowing and expanding of ideas might be too complicated.  Second, children become better and sifting through relevant and irrelevant data with age. Finally young children are slower and shifting between ideas than older children.

Children with ADHD cannot control their "filter" in their brain that makes only the important stuff come to the foreground.  Teachers have t become aware of the surroundings and understand the annoyances that might effect their education.

Shalev, L., & Tsal, Y. (2003, November/December). The wide attentional window: a      major deficit of children with attention diffiulties. Journal of Learning      Disabilities , 36(6), 517-527. Retrieved from      http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.libezproxy2.syr.edu/hww/results/      getResults.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.35