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How can I help a student in my class with his pretty severe ADHD. He is currently unmedicated and is making my lessons a struggle with his constant bad behaviour is there anyway i could fix this?
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Hello there, all!
I need some help.
A Scottish Primary School teacher friend of mine, who shall remain unnamed, has been having extreme difficulty with an incredibly troublesome, undisciplined Primary 5 child (Age 9) for over a year now.
This child is intelligent and has wonderful potential to be a brilliant learner and ...See MoreHello there, all!
I need some help.
A Scottish Primary School teacher friend of mine, who shall remain unnamed, has been having extreme difficulty with an incredibly troublesome, undisciplined Primary 5 child (Age 9) for over a year now.
This child is intelligent and has wonderful potential to be a brilliant learner and was much more productive in earlier years in school, however now is continually defiant and disturbed towards most instructions from his teacher.
This pupil is an avid gamer, which by all means is a wonderfully fun pass- time if precautions are taken to ensure the games are suitable for a 9-year- old, however, confirmed by his actions and conversations in class, the games he has been allocated are filled with violence, nudity and foul language - I'm not advocating for these games to be banned, I've played games of similar nature myself, but certainly not in Primary 5!
The Primary School my friend teaches at is very small (6 pupils) and has such a uniquely personal teacher to pupil attention ratio, that it creates a beautiful togetherness between everyone there - encouraging productivity, confidence in ability and resounding happiness.
The reason I mention this is this child is not only causing considerable turbulence in class, he, almost daily, returns to his home and tells extravagant, extremely exaggerated stories to his parents of how shockingly horrible and torturous his school day has been and, word for word, speaks of how he'd "rather die than return there" and "feels like killing himself". This behaviour is completely unaccounted for and certainly does not spawn from his school day. From both accounts from the teacher, and also having helped there for many hours at a time, I have seen how positive and fun- loving the pupils always are.
His parents, at first understandably, were very concerned about what he had to say and held talks with the Teacher to try and make sense of the matter. The teacher honestly and rightly presented that his perceived experiences were not at all how things actually occurred and, after this series of events continued for almost 3 months, suggested to them to speak to the Education Psychologist of the area as his issues were out of her professional depth.
Unfortunately, even with the Psychologist's guidance, the parents are convinced that the school is terrible and believe all of the exaggerated stories he tells them and are seemingly unable to question that he may be distorting the truth. For such a young person he has caused major turmoil in the school and my friend has been forced into the immoral predicament of having to tiptoe around a misbehaving child in fear of backlash from the parents.
The most pressing issue is that the parents are encouraging the child to do as he pleases in school and that he does not have to be involved in anything he does not want to be, meaning the child associates misbehaving with being praised by his parents.
My friend is becoming increasingly distraught with this whole dispute and I must find a way to help her.
If there is any advice and guidance you could pass onto me I would be eternally grateful!
Thank you very much.
Stefan.
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