This presentation is comprised of seventeen slides which are all anecdotes of all too familiar happenings with children who exhibit ADD/ADHD characteristics. Each child, as we all well know, is different and unique! Use these slides at the conclusion of an all day training as closure or use them at a Parent University or parent workshop. All teachers and parents can relate to the content for sure! The content is meant to highlight the funny side of living with an ADHD child!

This resource is a total of fifty-one slides to use as a presentation for older teenagers, young adults, college students, older adults, parents, etc. The material discussed is that of thirteen strategies that adults can adopt and implement for success in life.

One hall mark of ADHD is trouble with executive function. ADHD kids aren’t the best planners, organizers, or self-regulators. This can get very frustrating very quickly. This training presentation presents ten, simple steps can be followed to boost all seven executive functions and also help your child/student gain more independence. This presentation might be used in a professional learning community for growth in the area of ADHD and executive function, a school-wide focused faculty meeting, or even a district-wide professional development session with general education as well as special services teachers. Executive function has received much attention and research and is worth the investigation in that many, many students have difficulty with this and many times adults think it is instinctive! This might also be a training session implemented with parents who will benefit from the ten simple steps as well!

Working memory is part of our executive function and if often referred to as our “mental workspace” where information is stored and used for a short time i.e. a few seconds. It’s that place where we store a phone number, an address, an email address, etc. If a student is not able to retain the information needed to solve the problem, then the student is unable to complete the task and, of course, does not feel good about it at all. What is language processing? Several parts of language are very difficult for children with ADHD to make sense of and use successfully on a daily basis. Syntax is the set of rules of oral and written grammar. Semantics are the word meanings that influence oral and written grammar. Finally, pragmatics is the social use of language to convey thoughts and humor. The following thirty-three presentation and training slides are an explanation of many different memory techniques and strategies that can be modeled and used successfully with students with characteristics of ADHD to help improve his/her/their working memory deficits. This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, an all-day professional development session, and/or a small group professional learning community. As well, this training can be given to parents to allow them to help their children at home more successfully when studying with them or helping with homework!

This resource is a set of training slides that serves to educate young teens, young adults, and adults on how to finish what you start. This presentation contains eleven strategies to help finish tasks! You can’t go wrong in utilizing this presentation with middle schoolers, high schoolers, young adults in college, and parents in a “Parent University” setting!

We are all so completely busy! And... I am not sure if you have the same type of problems as myself; however, I am a procrastinator! In saying this, this resource is a printable that includes a strategy for managing your time. In this resource, the "Einstein Urgent Important Principle" is utilized and will prove to be a huge asset! Try it! Specifically, it allows you to prioritize your "to-do" list into four different categories which include: (1) Important and Urgent-- do it now; (2) Important, But Not Urgent-- Plan It; (3) Not Important, But Urgent -- Delegate it; and then (4) Not Important and Not Urgent -- Dump It! Try this printable-- hope you enjoy!

This resource is a set of approximately 57 slides which discuss and provide a context for training in the realm of IEP documents vs. 504 Plans. This is obviously a very confusing world and so many times, everyone has many, many questions! This presentation explains each, compares and contrasts, and gives real world scenarios for discussion. It is a great presentation for a professional development session, focused faculty meeting, grade level meeting, or professional learning community.

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!

What child does not love sock monkeys? This resource is a set of seven classroom rules with a sock money theme! You may only want to use four or five of the rules or change the rules out to suit the needs of your classroom and the challenges that it presents!

This resource is great for any math teacher needing a reference tool for the divisibility rules… so calling all third, fourth, and fifth grade math teachers… this resource is for YOU! This set includes a divisibility poster for each number from two through ten. Each poster is very colorful and will fit perfectly on a bulletin board as well as right above the whiteboard in your classroom!

Start the school year off right with a creative, top-ten countdown activity! Your students will love it! Students are able to introduce themselves to you and their classmates with a list of ten things to learn about them. Have fun and use this as an ice-breaker activity to get the year cranked up!

This resource packet will serve one well all year. Enclosed you will find each day of the week in uniquely different designs. These can be used for many different activities such as: learning the days of the week, understanding the order of the days of the week, and working with a big group with the calendar. These day of the week plates might also be used in a writing center in learning to write each day of the week. Finally, these day plates might be helpful in a literacy center in learning how the calendar works!

This is an awesome Powerpoint training for general education teachers, special needs educators, administrators, and all other educators alike. It consists of one hundred slides that progress from definitions, descriptions, myths, how it is diagnosed, causes, deficits and gifts, executive functions, medications, strategies and interventions, and places to seek more help and resources. This is an awesome all-day training that has the opportunity to be very interactive with many visuals and graphics. It is also a great resource for a Parent University setting. As well, it can be used in a smaller faculty group such as a Professional Learning Community. Finally, paraprofessionals will also benefit greatly from this knowledge base!

Springtime is here! Everybody is gearing up for baseball and softball season! And… what student doesn't want to be complimented on his/her great traits or a job well done. Use this resource packet of numbered baseballs to place on a large glove when a student does a great job or compliments another student for a job well done! This resource set includes baseballs numbered from one to forty-eight as well as twelve baseballs that are not numbered that can be used multiple ways. Set up a system with your classroom that when students earn a certain amount of baseballs or a certain amount of points, they are rewarded as a class! This can be a great system to encourage family and community in your classroom!

This product is training material in the form of a powerpoint presentation. This presentation will be great for a Parent University, a focused faculty session, a PTO open house session, or a professional learning community. As well, this material might be used with a parent group in terms of advice regarding parenting and disciplining children with ADHD. In this material, there are seven strategies to work with children where discipline is concerned particularly children diagnosed with ADHD. Finally, this is basically seven great pieces of advice for when a parent reaches the end of his/her rope with an unruly child who raises the volume on challenging behavior!

These twelve slides can serve as an excellent training tool for a parent conference, small group parent workshop, or a larger scale Parent University activity. The content contained in the slides is material published by the ATTitude journal in regards to ADD and ADHD children, teenagers, and adults. Many, many parents are in need of such information. In the set of training slides, reference is noted to two books that parents might want to check out for further information. Specifically, there are ten anger management tips that might be used with your students and his/her parents! The slides are set up to be used as a great presentation and a springboard for further discussion.

These eleven slides will serve as excellent material to use for training in terms of a focused faculty meeting, a professional development session, a parent conference, a Parent University forum, or simply a professional learning community for teachers. The slides focus on eight specific challenges that ADHD, ADD, and/or LD students/children face daily. Along with each challenge, there are four to five suggested accommodations given to try with students ~ students who have a 504 plan, students who are IDEA eligible, and other students who might need the extra support! As much as these slides can be shared with teachers, they should also be used to share with parents as well!

In this training and support packet of materials, you will find a powerpoint presentation that can be used for a professional learning community session, a focused faculty meeting, and/or a professional development session. There are a total of fourteen slides which encourage teachers to shift students into "high gear" thinking. The slides focus on the point that as long as students are involved in only memory and recall then they have trouble with "low gear" thinking! The point is made to involve students in "high gear" engaging activities, and they will grasp and retain much more than when asked to simply recall. This training presentation is a "jumping off point" into constructing/creating engaging teaching and learning activities!

Our classrooms are full of native digital learners. Learners who do not know life any different than being connected 24/7– they have unlimited data, face-time, snap chat, and utilize many, many other applications. Because of this, students must continually be educated about proper on-line etiquette and procedures for on-line behavior. In this resource, you will find six mini-posters that are perfect to place above your whiteboard. Each expresses a statement of proper etiquette/on-line procedures for the web. In this information age of technology, it is so completely important for students to be able to think rational and logical where on-line procedures are concerned. These posters are reminders of expected on-line behavior.

Students absolutely love to hear their teachers talk about them in a great, positive way. This packet reinforces that concept that we all know to be true. In this packet, you will find several ways of delivering hand written positive messages to your students. There are notes entitled, “You got caught doing something good!”, “Here’s To You,” and “You Make Me Proud!” Additionally, there are two sets of notes entitled, “It’s the Little Things That Mean So Much.” In these sets, you can check off the things that your students have done well and reward them with just a simple note of praise!