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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

curriculum adaption, ADHD, classroom

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

In accepting this research grant my objective was to better understand the characteristics of ADHD and to regard these characteristics as strengths that could be seen as assets in a classroom. When I began this research I was hopeful that I would find many articles discussing the positive traits of students with ADHD; however, disappointingly, I read far more articles explaining how to control or manage the students so that they would better fit into our ideal traditional classroom. For example, in “Treatment of ADHD in School Settings” the authors state, “The goal of school intervention is to contain and manage the symptoms so as to preclude or minimize the occurrence of secondary harms that befall the child who is not well managed (e.g. grade retention, peer rejection, suspension, expulsion, low achievement skills).”Although these researchers care about the student and have the student’s success in mind I believe that first as an educational system we have to analyze the way we teach and how we can better design curriculum that offers success for these student’s positive characteristics.

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