Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD (Grades PK-12)

Presented by Melissa Davis
Outstanding Teacher and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Effective and proven intervention strategies for excessive fidgeting or restlessness, difficulty staying seated or quiet, and frequent interrupting
Specific, practical strategies to reduce disruptive and often repeated, attention-getting behaviors including roaming, blurting out, excessive talking, and inability to focus
Practical, proven tools to help you improve student behavior … Increase productivity and decrease time off task
Ways to improve executive function skills in students with ADHD … Organization of tasks and personal space, time management, task initiation and completion, impulse control, emotional self-regulation, and working memory

Practical Ideas and Strategies

Is it challenging, trying to keep your students with ADHD engaged and on task? Do interruptions, inattention, and constant repetition drain your instructional time? This seminar, presented by Melissa Davis, is designed to equip busy educators with practical, research-based strategies to more effectively support students with ADHD in school settings. Melissa offers insights grounded in her many years of working with challenging and disruptive behaviors. As a highly experienced teacher, a spouse of someone with ADHD, and a mother of a child with ADHD, Melissa brings a unique, well-rounded perspective to managing attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and organizational challenges in students. Gain easy-to-implement techniques designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing instruction. You will also receive a comprehensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with ready-made strategies, tools, and practical ideas you can use immediately.

Join Melissa for the day and leave feeling re-energized and equipped to create a more structured and supportive learning environment – ready to engage and empower even your most challenging students who have or may have ADHD.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

What Every Educator Should Know About Helping Students Who Have or May Have ADHD
Discover highly practical behavioral and academic supports for helping students who have or may have ADHD … Explore doable ways of greatly increasing support for students without adding to your already busy plate
Improve Attention and Focus in the Classroom
Discover practical strategies to help students who have or may have ADHD maintain focus and sustain attention during lengthy tasks and extended work periods
Techniques to Immediately Address Impulsivity Issues
Teach students to recognize impulsive behavior, such as blurting out, interrupting, and not being able to wait their turn – and how to make better in-the-moment choices
Address Students' Hyperactivity
Discover highly effective ways to address hyperactivity in students using a variety of activities and best-practice instructional ideas
De-escalate Behaviors With Practical, Effective and Doable Strategies
Discover specific, practical strategies to significantly deescalate students when they are dysregulated … Teach your students to get what they need in more productive ways
Practical Strategies to Develop Students' Self-Regulation Skills
Reduce behavioral problems and increase learning with practical and easy-to-implement strategies that develop students' self-regulation skills
Build Foundational Organization and Time Management Skills
Explore a variety of easy-to-implement, successful strategies for helping students who may have ADHD learn how to organize their materials, begin to break activities down into manageable tasks, and follow multi-step instructions
Improve Learning and Retention in Students With ADHD
Learn quick, easy ways to create and use visual strategies to help students with ADHD better understand their environment, learn, and retain information
Avoid Common Mistakes in Working Students Who Have or May Have ADHD
See common pitfalls and practical ways to avoid them … Walk away with ready-to-use solutions to more effectively correct and redirect student behaviors
Receive an Extensive ADHD Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook, specifically designed for this seminar and filled with practical methods, ideas and techniques for helping students who have or may have ADHD

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

Practical strategies to make a dramatic difference for your students who have or may have ADHD
Highly effective strategies to decrease blurting out behavior
How to be more proactive and spend less time addressing difficult behaviors
Ideas to increase time on task and help sustain attention to lessons
Specific techniques to strengthen organization and time management skills
Quick, easy visual strategies to develop students' executive functioning skills
Proven ideas to help students manage short- and long-term projects, homework, and assignments – persisting with tasks to completion
Activities and strategies to increase engagement and learning for students who may have ADHD
How to help students better manage their behaviors and reactions
Practical classroom-based interventions to decrease difficult student behaviors
Ways to increase your students' ability to focus and stay engaged
Specific strategies to teach students to regulate their thinking, emotions and behavior
Highly effective strategies for addressing hyperactivity in the classroom
Effective ways to address how the ADHD brain works … Highlight students' strengths while working on areas of concern

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Would you agree with me that each day as an educator presents us with new and unique challenges? We're witnessing increased dysregulation among students, difficulties with transitions, organizational struggles, challenges with work planning and assignment completion, and frequent lesson interruptions. Additionally, our students exhibit decreased attention spans, hindering their ability to stay engaged in the learning. Consequently, we often must dedicate disproportionate time to managing individual students, taking away from the time and attention the rest of our students need.

Rather than "admiring the problem," this seminar addresses these pressing concerns by focusing on practical, easy-to-implement strategies for better supporting students who have or may have ADHD. By equipping you with these tools, my goal
is to alleviate teacher burnout and facilitate a return to the instruction all your students need.

I want to provide you with a comprehensive toolkit of evidence-based, yet highly practical interventions. We'll focus on addressing the core challenges associated with ADHD, while simultaneously equipping you with valuable strategies that will empower your students both in the immediate classroom setting and in their
future endeavors.

Join me for a positive and productive day where we'll look at ways to actively avoid common pitfalls, while acquiring a wealth of new resources for helping students who have or may have ADHD. I'm excited to help you develop strategies that will positively impact students' behavior and learning.

Sincerely,
Melissa Davis

P.S. You'll leave with lots of practical ideas and my extensive ADHD digital resource handbook, filled with strategies you can implement immediately.

Who Should Attend

Educators Serving Grades PreK-12: General Education Teachers, Special Education Staff, Counselors, Instructional Assistants, Title I Staff, and Administrators

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive ADHD Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

Teacher-tested, classroom-proven strategies for helping students who have or may have ADHD
Practical ideas for working with inattentive and hyperactive students
Visual strategies to prevent off-task behaviors
Ready-to-use strategies for working with students who have or may have ADHD
Multiple resources and next-day ideas for improving organization, impulse control, memory, behavioral regulation, and attention

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in helping students who have or may have ADHD.

Consultation Available
Melissa Davis will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option
UMASS Logo Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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