By Lance Winslow
Not long ago, I was talking to a teacher about the challenges with 40 kids in the classroom in middle school. There are kids who misbehave perhaps because they ate too much sugar, or they misbehave at home with no discipline, so when they come to school it's very difficult to keep them from messing around and disturbing the other students. All this disruption makes it almost impossible to teach. Then there are the kids with ADHD or ADD, some of which are not on medication, and that's a whole other issue.
It's hard to say what the solution is for all this. We can't label every kid as having ADD or ADHD, and then giving them medication. Some kids just have way too much energy, there's nothing wrong with them at all, and they also have a discipline problem because their parents don't discipline them at home. Nevertheless, maybe we can alleviate some of the problems with at least one segment of these kids who become behavioral problems.
Medical Express had an interesting article published on November 5, 2012 titled; "For some children with ADHD, music has similar positive effects to medication," by Joann Adkins in the Attention Deficit Disorders category. The article stated;
With music we actually discovered, in most cases, it didn't really affect the children. While a few were distracted by music, the majority were not. "And in some cases, we found listening to music helped the kids with ADHD to complete their work. Actually for this subgroup, the effect of music on them was nearly as effective as medication."
They say that music calms the savage beast. Playing music is something that has been used for generations by humans to keep wild animals from attacking. Apparently, the music makes takes their mind off of what they are doing, while they try to register what those sounds mean. They end up liking the music because it is pleasing, or because it is different, and therefore they don't attack. That's a pretty good trick, that's pretty good to know, and so maybe this recent study isn't so surprising after all?
Am I calling these unruly behavior problem kids savage beasts? No, but I bet a number of teachers do, because they have to sit with them in a cage (classroom) and teach them all day, if you get my drift. It might make sense to play a little elevator music, something with a good beat, and that might help ADD and ADHD kids focus long enough for you to teach them, and prevent them from causing a ruckus and disrupting the classroom. Just a thought; please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Education. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
Not long ago, I was talking to a teacher about the challenges with 40 kids in the classroom in middle school. There are kids who misbehave perhaps because they ate too much sugar, or they misbehave at home with no discipline, so when they come to school it's very difficult to keep them from messing around and disturbing the other students. All this disruption makes it almost impossible to teach. Then there are the kids with ADHD or ADD, some of which are not on medication, and that's a whole other issue.It's hard to say what the solution is for all this. We can't label every kid as having ADD or ADHD, and then giving them medication. Some kids just have way too much energy, there's nothing wrong with them at all, and they also have a discipline problem because their parents don't discipline them at home. Nevertheless, maybe we can alleviate some of the problems with at least one segment of these kids who become behavioral problems.
Medical Express had an interesting article published on November 5, 2012 titled; "For some children with ADHD, music has similar positive effects to medication," by Joann Adkins in the Attention Deficit Disorders category. The article stated;
With music we actually discovered, in most cases, it didn't really affect the children. While a few were distracted by music, the majority were not. "And in some cases, we found listening to music helped the kids with ADHD to complete their work. Actually for this subgroup, the effect of music on them was nearly as effective as medication."
They say that music calms the savage beast. Playing music is something that has been used for generations by humans to keep wild animals from attacking. Apparently, the music makes takes their mind off of what they are doing, while they try to register what those sounds mean. They end up liking the music because it is pleasing, or because it is different, and therefore they don't attack. That's a pretty good trick, that's pretty good to know, and so maybe this recent study isn't so surprising after all?
Am I calling these unruly behavior problem kids savage beasts? No, but I bet a number of teachers do, because they have to sit with them in a cage (classroom) and teach them all day, if you get my drift. It might make sense to play a little elevator music, something with a good beat, and that might help ADD and ADHD kids focus long enough for you to teach them, and prevent them from causing a ruckus and disrupting the classroom. Just a thought; please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Education. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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