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I find this is something that I have been thinking for the past 20 years. I was a addiction therapist. I worked with teens and found out that the schools would put students who were ADD or ADHD in special education, causing that student to feel different and leading to more dysfunction. My thoughts are this, like the clip says education has not changed, instead of picking those students who don't learn as fast. ADD ADHD students become distracted after about 15 minutes. An example; the class is supposed to cover the civil war in 4 days, a teacher has 4 points for the students to learn. This would be accomplished by hour long class point 1 the first day, point 2 the second and so on. Those who can't keep up (ADD ADHD students can keep up for about 15 minutes before getting distracted) my thinking is use the first 15 minutes of the class for point 1, the next 15 for point 2 and so on. This will work by shifting the focus just as the students are starting to drift, and now you have 15 more minutes. But what do I know, I am just an old Jar Head who barely graduated from HS. Just food for thought. Cynthia Croft,CPL Dave Hoover,SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth,SPC Woody Bullard,COL Mikel J. Burroughs,PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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MSG Stan Hutchison
One teacher in my son's 5th grade was determined he had ADD or something. He was tested over and over again, the results showing the same results; no ADD or ADHD. We later learned he did not have any type of learning disorder. He had a higher that average intelligence and the problems stemmed from him just getting board. He would read ahead and when the class was discussing something he had learned beforehand, he got bored. That led to disruptive behavior. He actually dropped out after 11the grade. He went back the next year, took his GED, and al most maxed it.
After this, I no longer support teaching to the masses, rather each individual must be addressed individually.
By the way, my daughter went to the same school. When she started 10th grade, she also started at a local college. She got her High School diploma, and an AA degree, on the same day. She found better ways to address the problem of boredom.
After this, I no longer support teaching to the masses, rather each individual must be addressed individually.
By the way, my daughter went to the same school. When she started 10th grade, she also started at a local college. She got her High School diploma, and an AA degree, on the same day. She found better ways to address the problem of boredom.
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AA Joseph Moody
Training till a skill is habituated is critical to the ADHD types. The other two things I found effective (from both sides of adhd) is distraction free workplaces and rapid and repeated iterations as a means to avoid the flush part of the learn and flush mechanic.
My Shop teacher at VoTech was a master at this, and for that first year he would make sure that every week you did a little bit of everything you learned up till that point. Did I mention that that man was a sadist?
My Shop teacher at VoTech was a master at this, and for that first year he would make sure that every week you did a little bit of everything you learned up till that point. Did I mention that that man was a sadist?
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Cpl Scott McCarroll
I am ADD I could only stay focused until I got bored, and it was before they started building schools with no Windows. I went back to school while living in Florida and carried a 3.60 grade average. I have been told way to many times that I am way to smart for my own good. I now find that I want to know more. I tend to watch the History Channel, and the Science Channel
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AA Joseph Moody
90% of my learning, even when I Was in school was self learning, a downside of adhd is you have less executive function, and a crap attention span to boot, so I sae early on that the choices was to learn it to habituation before I needed it or sink.
Now 30 years ago the ability to self learn was almost looked down on, but today...well hell this week I had to do a learn/flush with python because I needed to get an addon to work, last week I needed to stitch a database into a game engine, and twice a day I'm working on anatomy sculpts in a 3d program.
And doing the python and database was someone else's job but it seems that the downside of going to a party college is that some students forget to get their hands dirty
Now 30 years ago the ability to self learn was almost looked down on, but today...well hell this week I had to do a learn/flush with python because I needed to get an addon to work, last week I needed to stitch a database into a game engine, and twice a day I'm working on anatomy sculpts in a 3d program.
And doing the python and database was someone else's job but it seems that the downside of going to a party college is that some students forget to get their hands dirty
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You get what you vote for America.
Then again, from an unemployed/out of work perspective, why get smart when you won't/can't get a job or keep a job? Fix the jobs and education at the same time.
No? Didn't think so. But keep looking...I'm sure the next candidate has no emails on their servers and didn't grope any women...
Then again, from an unemployed/out of work perspective, why get smart when you won't/can't get a job or keep a job? Fix the jobs and education at the same time.
No? Didn't think so. But keep looking...I'm sure the next candidate has no emails on their servers and didn't grope any women...
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