In other words...

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ADD...What it is and what it ain't from a long-time sufferer
This is a successful adult's description of his lifelong struggle with ADD.

Advice to Student Teachers
This is some potentially helpful advice from one student teacher to future student teachers.

Cooperative Hands-On Learning
Helpful tips to maximize the benefits of hands-on learning in the classroom.

The Effect of Teen Suicide on One Person's Teaching Philosophy
Helpful advice about working with teens written by a teacher who was unable to save one of his students.

The First Day of Class: An Ethnographic Analysis and a Synthesis of Three Teachers
These three descriptions capture different teachers' approaches to the first day of classes at a school.

For Vincent
A teacher tells about how her outlook on students changed when one of her students was killed.

Recovering from an Eating Disorder
This is the story of one 18 year-old who is recovering from an eating disorder.

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This document was last updated 12/31/97 by Chandra Hawley.
Copyright 1997 Indiana University - Center for Adolescent Studies, all rights reserved.
Kris Bosworth - Director
em solving all based on what they did the week prior.

  • Integrating these concepts into other subjects and lessons. Don't let ideas die! Use them again and again. Plus students will be proud of their resourceful ability to recall what they have learned.

    Of course, I continue to try different ideas that help students link ideas and concepts from what they learned from one day/week to the next. But I think it is so important and critical to find ways to assure that students learn the idea behind the activity. At first, these ideas were getting lost in the shuffle. But by the end of the year, cooperative/hands-on learning in all of my subjects was a success!

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    This document was last updated 8/13/97 by Chandra Hawley.
    Copyright 1996 Indiana University - Center for Adolescent Studies, all rights reserved.
    Kris Bosworth - Director
    with what you are doing I want you to....." see what I mean.

    Now how do you deal with this ??? Here is what has and still works for me.

    1. Exclude as many distractions as possible. At work I wore industrial ear plugs and found that they were great at filtering out the distractions and allowing me to concentrate on the people that were talking.
    2. At home I surrounded my self with "meaningless noise" I listened to music through headphones, here again, we are screening out distractions and allowing the brain to devote all it attention to the task at hand
    3. I work on tasks only as long as I can make progress and when the "fog" closes in I quit.
    4. I only read what I have to because I like most ADD persons I also am somewhat dexletic so reading is a real problem.

    BTW did I tell you I have been a practicing Facility and Mechanical engineer for the last 35 years??? So not reading every little detail about every little subject will not stifle a career much to dismay and amazement of my High School teachers.

    I also flunked every algebra, trig and physics course I ever took until I learned to do it different than the book. But my stress analysis always worked. ( at least no structure ever caved in)

    OK I am tired now so let's recap and get out of here......

    Thank you for listening

    Ken Phillips

    P.S. This letter took me 1:30 to compose using all the features of MS Word 6.2


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    This document was last updated 1/8/98 by Chandra Hawley.
    Copyright 1996 Indiana University - Center for Adolescent Studies, all rights reserved.
    Kris Bosworth - Director
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