Tim IrishElementary Curriculum CoordinatorAssistant PrincipalUniversal American School, Kuwait

Please find an appointment sheet and schedule your first four meetings.

1. Identify (and accept) the various perspectives that must be considered in developing a successful school-based plan to support children with ADHD.

2. Establish the basis for a School-wide Positive Behavior Support System.

3. Summarize the research base on the most successful approaches to ADHD in schools (Wrap-Around).

4. Use a rubric to assess the strengths and weaknesses of an individual student’s support system.

1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment, ask a polite question about your partner’s family.

2. Consider the classroom scene from the perspective of a teacher, parent, administrator, and student.1. What does each perspective want?

2. What does each perspective need?

3. What must each perspective do to gain the support of the other perspectives?

That child is out to lunch.He has absolutely no clue.

He doesn’t belong in a classroom.There is no way that child can succeed

in 5th grade.

Get that boy on meds.If that child is allowed to stay in this school,

I quit.The only way to get him to sit still is tie him to

his chair.

Rosen (2011) observed students’ home study habits in 15 minute intervals.

• Average length of time on task was 3-5 minutes.• Interruptions included television, iPods, cell phones, text messages, music, and Facebook alerts.• There was a strong correlation between longer on-task times and grade point average. •The students with the lowest grade point averages were the ones who attempted to “multi-task” by keeping three or more activities going at the same time.•75% of teens and young adults checked devices (phones, laptops) every 15 minutes or less.

Thomas Edison Jim CareyAlexander Graham-Bell

Albert Einstein Benjamin Franklin Mark Twain Robin Williams Elvis Presley

Robert Kennedy Abraham LincolnTed Turner

Will SmithStephen Spielberg

Michael Phelps

Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness Dr. Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction

Step 1 is to connect…to family, school and friends.Step 2 is to play.Step 3 is to practice and work.Step 4 is to make progress and achieve mastery. Step 5 is to receive recognition.

What will it look like?What are the essential

elements?Who must be included in

this community?What are the barriers that

need to be overcome?

Four component parts for creating Positive Behavior Support System

1. Teach, prompt and celebrate essential social skills.

2. Clarify consequences for positive and negative behavior.

3. Follow through with consistency in all areas of the school

4. Plan for special situations

Find your 1:30 appointment

1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment, ask a polite question about your partner’s family.

2. Review the Sample Behavior Matrix.3. Reach consensus on

consequences and rewards for the various levels.

4. Brain Break!

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Math Game Break

Research base for creating positive school and classroom climates• Effective instructional grouping• Effective academic (differentiated) instruction• Student instruction in their “Zones of Success”• Well-designed and implemented progress monitoring and authentic assessment systems• Effective classroom management• Social skills instruction and use• Effective student motivation and behavioral accountability approaches• Consistency• Modifications, remediation, accommodations

Problematic behavior can be replaced with more positive alternatives through multi-modal intervention programs including academic training, behavior modification, family training and counseling, and effective instruction.

What behaviors impede learning? (Individually and school-wide, among students AND adults)

Why do they occur?

What can we do to replace those behaviors with more positive behaviors?

What works?

Find your 1:45 appointment

1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment, ask a polite question about your partner’s family.

2. Share personal experience with the research base.

3. Describe how the elements of a positive school climate are essential for the success of an ADHD child.

Four component parts for creating Positive Behavior Support System

1. Teach, prompt and celebrate essential social skills.

2. Clarify consequences for positive and negative behavior.

3. Follow through with consistency in all areas of the school

4. Plan for special situations

Planning for “Special Situations”

Multi-modal intervention programs

Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA)

Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)Academic Training Family Training Behavior Contract CounselingSocial Skill Training CoachingAfter School Program Medication

Is your school prepared?

Research base for creating positive school and classroom climates• Effective instructional grouping• Effective academic (differentiated) instruction• Student instruction in their “Zones of Success”• Well-designed and implemented progress monitoring and authentic assessment systems• Effective classroom management• Social skills instruction and use• Effective student motivation and behavioral

accountability approaches• Consistency• Modifications, remediation, accommodations

Find your 2:00 appointment

1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment, ask a polite question about your partner’s family.

2. Review System Analysis Rubric3. Discuss personal

experience, strengths,challenges and areas for growth.

Documents available at:

http://www.slideshare.net/tdirish2012