How To Help Students Focus
When a student is anxious or has a difficult time settling down, staying still as long as other children, or paying attention to the task at hand, adults become concerned. Should this student be assessed for anxiety or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? This session will uncover the underlying dynamic of an over-activated alarm system that contributes to these symptoms. While a diagnosis may help, ultimately it is how we “see” the student, as one who is facing too much alarm and usually too much separation, that will lead us to find interventions that will help in the long term.
Course Outline
- Alarm and the alarm system
- Introducing the emotion of alarm
- How the Limbic System works
- Neufeld’s Traffic Circle of Alarm
- How a functioning alarm system should work
- Separation and Alarm
- Separation as a major source of alarm
- How the brain handles alarm too much to bear through defenses
- Anxiety as a defense
- Attention as a defense
- The role of the prefrontal cortex in directing attention
- Understanding why certain interventions do not help
- Timeouts
- Consequences
- Reward systems
- Interventions
- Intervening with Anxiety in the classroom
- Creating conditions in the classroom for the student with attention problems
- Using a continuum of interventions to help students with differing level of problems
Key Details
- Contact Hours: 4.0 hrs
- Format: Live Online Training
- Language: English
- Venue: Online
