Here is series two of our ADHD intervention topics.

Although these articles focus on ADHD specifically, the same concepts can apply to children with generalized focus issues, mismanaged energy, low self-esteem, and slower learning difficulties.

We will continue to identify ways that KMA helps to integrate these concepts into our everyday delivery of service.

TOPIC 2 – WEEK TWO

Reference: Meeting the Needs of Students With ADHD

Steps you can take to foster greater productivity, order, and calm for these learners.

By Merle Huerta

January 22, 2015

Integrating Personal Development Into Lessons

Students with ADHD frequently lack skills required in the real world, including problem solving, time management, fiscal responsibility, personal accountability, communication skills, and public speaking. Teachers can integrate these skills into lessons. For example, students who need help advocating for themselves can learn how to present and sell ideas, market themselves, and communicate effectively through public speaking. Public speaking integrates oral presentation skills, research, storytelling, nonverbal communication, time management, problem solving, and speaking fluency.

The KMA Difference

Here are a few ways that our approach to teaching helps to achieve the goals of "Integrating Personal Development Lessons":

· The "Going Beyond The Grades" Program

· Terminology Components

· Success Passports

· Stripe Testing & Graduation

· Spot Lighting

The "Going Beyond The Grades" program is used in our martial art classes around the beginning of the school year. We promote and reinforce how their martial art development is preparing them for positive interactions in school, at home, and in social environments so that they can learn how to advocate for themselves. We conduct simulations and incorporate key concepts in our drills that help students develop superior social qualities, like "proper breathing" to control emotion, energy, and refocus during challenging encounters, "power posing & voice projection" to build the positive self-esteem and self-confidence needed to withstand peer pressure, and excel as leaders, the "4 C’s: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication", and much more…

Terminology Components are setup within each student's success passport in order to provide them with opportunities to learn about their martial art heritage, Korean language, and reinforce character development training. Students are expected to memorize and speak their answers during class and for testing. Instructors will often ask questions in class to test the student's understanding of these areas and identify ways that they are incorporating them at home, in school, and in class. These mini assessments give students opportunities to utilize and develop their oral presentation skills & public speaking.

Success Passports are provided to students with the expectation that they will bring them to class each day. This sense of personal accountability helps to reinforce concepts in school, like bringing homework to their teacher each day, being prepared for quizzes/tests, etc. It also allows them to see their progress through the Instructor Sign Off sections when they complete a requirement much like their grading system in school.

Stripe Testing & Graduation are designed to put students in a position to be judged and demonstrate their confidence, focus, and perseverance. Stripe Testing helps kids learn how to set small attainable goals, learn to manage their training time, and then work towards those goals with the expectation that they will need to publicly demonstrate their abilities. These "mini-tests" help to prepare them for their longer term goal, "Graduation". Testing at lower levels of training are meant to help kids establish a sense of belief in themselves, allow them to make mistakes and learn acceptance, preserve in the face of failure, and take pride in their accomplishments. These exposures prepare students for interactions outside of the martial art classroom where they are faced with similar circumstances.

Spot Lighting is an Instructor technique used to give students who demonstrate exceptional technique and opportunity to show off their skills for the group. This is an excellent confidence builder and gives them exposure with presenting in front of a group. It is a great way for students who may shy from public speaking to excel in non-verbal displays of confidence.

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