Tag Archive for: Attention

Distance Learning is TOUGH!

Attention and Distance Learning

While most children find distance learning to be disruptive, children who struggle with attention challenges can have additional challenges with home-based learning and remote teaching. Recognize that some things are beyond your control, but other things are not. Here are a few suggestions to improve your child’s focus.

Reduce At-Home Distractions

Your child will likely engage the online learning class better with headphones that block out ambient sounds and a microphone that amplifies your student’s voice. 

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Getting Back To Her Happy Place

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Our daughter struggled, with a capital S, in middle school.  It made me remember the soul crushing awkwardness of that age, the confusion of higher expectations, the need for social acceptance, the loneliness of exclusion, the fear of being less-than.  Yep!  Middle school is hard for lots of people. 

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Why Attention Matters And How to Help

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Attention is thought of mostly as a cognitive choice. When teachers and parents say, “Pay Attention!” they imply that the child being inattentive is doing so by choice. What if, like being able to do a cartwheel or a handstand, attention is something that some children do with ease while others require much more training and assistance?

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My child can’t stay focused in school

Attention and School Outcomes

My child can’t stay focused in class.  

The past year was difficult.  We started the year doing pretty well and then things started to slip.  Teachers called to say that assignments were missing, not once or twice but regularly.  We tried punishments, no trip to the river if you don’t turn in your homework.  There were tears and tantrums and in the end.  Nothing short of constant supervision made an impact. 

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Attention in the Classroom

Attention and school outcomes we can help

What’s the difference between students who do well in the classroom and those who don’t? In many cases, attention is the underlying difference between classroom success and failure. Students with strong attention skills do markedly better than those with weak attention skills.

Most educators know that attention is important to learning.

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