tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8405116743902845068.post8196803901691403777..comments2023-12-19T21:56:57.842-08:00Comments on Charlotte's ADHD Web: ADHD Kids Are Fun!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8405116743902845068.post-42371970535310143822010-11-10T11:35:05.293-08:002010-11-10T11:35:05.293-08:00wow, this is all so true. I as a child, and now as...wow, this is all so true. I as a child, and now as a teacher. It seems like so many ADHD kids are creative, and very visual, and those two things don't make for "good grades." I'm very visual and struggled through every minute of 12 years of school thinking I was just purely "dumb". The most overwhelming "teaching find" for me has been doing math visually. No digits, just shapes representing numbers. I spent one year with two very visual students, who could not make sense of digits; adding, subtracting, multiplying with shapes. By the end of the year they were faster at digit math than some of my top math students. They were two students who had "suffered" through school in previous grades, thinking they would never "get it." <br />Why can't we teach verbally, assessments be oral, ....we can't. College is waiting for them.<br />I try to teach to their learning style and yet give them tools to make it through our "maze" of education, while my heart aches, because I know what "dumb" felt like. I went to college at 30 not for a career, but to prove to my family and myself that I wasn't dumb. It worked! I couldn't believe I graduated. I couldn't believe a career awaited me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com