Description

This professional development course offers a transformative approach to counter the shame associated with ADHD by building tailored, neurodiversity-affirming environments. Whether you want to better support yourself, your child at home, or optimize your classroom environment and lesson design to benefit all neurotypes, in this class you will explore practical, everyday strategies that work with the ADHD brain. Transform frustration into understanding.

Documentation: A certificate of completion is provided that lists the course title, clock hours, date of completion, learning goals or topics, your name, the organization name and logo, a representative signature, and a unique certificate ID number. No matter how many teachers successfully use our classes for PD purposes, we must always advise you to check with your state or employer requirements for acceptance of clock hours.

Course Outline

    1. Description, Expectations, & Support

    2. Your Journal Set-Up

    1. Video: What is ADHD?

    1. What is ADHD?

    2. The Importance of Caution when Consulting Self-Help for ADHD

    3. Watch: ADHD Explained by Dr. Thomas E. Brown (via Understood.org)

    4. Transcript: ADHD Explained by Dr. Thomas E. Brown (from Understood.org)

    5. Watch: The Neuroanatomy of ADHD by Dr. Russell Barkley

    6. Setting Up for Success: Treatment and Management Options

    7. Watch: "ADHD Sucks, but not Really" by Salif Mahamane [TEDxUSU]

    8. Watch: "Why Stimulants Help ADHD" by SciShow Psych

    9. Watch: Differences Between ADHD Medication Options by Dr Russell Barkley

    10. Journal: What is ADHD?

    1. Presentation of ADHD

    2. “Mostly a Boy’s Disorder”

    3. Race and Culture

    4. Misnomer

    1. Module 1 Quiz - What is ADHD?

    2. Additional Resources for ADHD Basics

    1. Video: Motivation & ADHD

About this course

  • 10 Clock Hours
  • 4 Modules

  • Books to Get

    None. You are not required to purchase any learning materials for this class. All learning content is provided in the course. Any 3rd party content is free.

  • Completion Requirements

    1) View all content. 2) Complete 4 quizzes. 3) Complete course survey. Quizzes are auto-graded, must be completed at 80% or higher accuracy, and can be retaken as needed.

  • Education PD Topics

    This course presents content relevant for the following PD topics: differentiated learning, learning environment, equity, special needs. Endorsement subjects: psychology

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This course is asynchronous and self-paced. You work through the modules in order, but on a schedule that best fits your needs. You have a full year from the time you sign up to complete the course.
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Learning Goals

By the end of the course:

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of ADHD as a genetic neurobiological condition, shifting away from misconceptions of laziness towards a neurodiversity-affirming lens.
  • Gather strategies to optimize environments, organization, and time management to set ADHD students and children up for long-term educational and career success.
  • Learn how to counter the heavy burden of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and shame by creating supportive "trellis" systems that foster independence and self-trust.
  • Learn how ADHD impacts everything from motivation and focus to time management and organization. 
  • Gain  tools and approaches to counter shame, build confidence, and create systems that support success.



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