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  • Students with ADHD
    ADHD Students and Classroom Considerations
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024
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  • A Retrospective on A Teenager’s Experience Being Diagnosed and Treated for ADHD
    In order for a student to be diagnosed with ADHDsymptoms must appear before age 12 and be exhibited across at least two settingsThey must also have adverse effects onacademic performanceoccupation.jpg
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

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  • Combined type. The student may exhibit symptoms that include behaviors from both categories above. In order for a student to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 12 and be exhibited across at least two settings. They must also have adverse effects on academic performance, occupational success, or social-emotional development (APA, 2013). To add to the complexity of the diagnosis, children with ADHD are likely to have co-existing emotional, behavioral, developmental, learning, or physical conditions (Wolraich & DuPaul, 2010).
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

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  • Students with ADHD
    Many students with ADHD have significant difficulties with organization.  They are more likely to respond positively when teachers establish class routines and set procedures and maintain a well-organized learning environment.  Clear rules and advanced planning are keys to success for teachers of students with ADHD. The following organizational supports are particularly useful. Students should be taught to use these tools through teacher modeling and guided practice with feedback before being expected to use them more independently.
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Monday, Sep 16, 2024

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  • The culture of the classroom can either support or create barriers to student success (Piffner, 2011). Factors that foster attention, positive behavior, and academic and social success include establishing positive relationships with students, adopting classroom management techniques, and creating a physical arrangement that facilitates learning. It is often a positive relationship with one teacher that facilitates school success for a student with ADHD (Piffner, 2011). The main symptoms of ADHD are inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.  These can manifest in different ways: persistent fidgeting, being easily distracted or forgetful and difficulty waiting for a turn.
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Thursday, Sep 5, 2024
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  • Edited test data management
    State of Test Data Management Tools Test Data Needed Modern DevOps teams need high quality test data based on real production data sources for software testing early in the SDLC. This helps development teams bring high-quality applications to market at an increasingly competitive pace. Data for DevOps Though many organizations have adopted agile software development and DevOps methodologies, there has been an underinvestment in test data management tools—which has constrained innovation.
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024
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  • Students with ADHD
    As a result of the behaviors listed above, students with ADHD are at greater risk of academic difficulties, social/emotional issues, and limited educational outcomes. The degree to which attention impacts a student’s academic and social performance is related to the interactions between the student’s academic and behavioral needs and the environmental demands. Therefore, it is not unusual for the student to perform differently across settings. For example, a student with ADHD may experience academic success in elementary school; however, when he enters middle school, the increased academic and organizational demands may increase his need for additional academic and behavioral supports.
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Wednesday, Sep 4, 2024
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  • Factors of educational success
    Educational success, also referred to as student and academic achievement, pertains to the extent to which educational objectives are met, such as the acquisition of knowledge and skills by students. For practical purposes, it is often primarily measured in terms of official exam scores, but numerous additional indicators exist, including attendance rates, graduation rates, dropout rates, student attitudes, and post-school indicators such as later income and incarceration rates.[100] Several factors influence educational achievement, such as psychological factors related to the individual student, and sociological factors associated with the student's social environment. Additional factors encompass access to educational technology, teacher quality, and parental involvement. Many of these factors overlap and mutually influence each other
    By: Anne Miller vijayalaxmi Santosh Mhetre
    Thursday, Aug 1, 2024
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  • vocational universities
    Vocational education can take place at the post-secondary, further education, or higher education level and can interact with the apprenticeship system. At the post-secondary level, vocational education is often provided by highly specialized trade schools, technical schools, community colleges, colleges of further education (UK), vocational universities, and institutes of technology (formerly called polytechnic institutes).
    By: Monika Dhakate..
    Tuesday, Jun 11, 2024
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