Thank you to all of our professional educators who dedicate themselves to our children! We know how difficult it can be working with ADHD children, so here are your teacher tips for the week, brought to you by the ADHD Information Library and ADDinSchool.com. This is a sampling of over 500 classroom interventions for your use at http://www.ADDinSchool.com.
Here are some tips on presenting your lesson ADHD students. Remember, the best interventions are the ones that will help all of your students be more successful, not just the ADHD students.
Try to provide an outline with the key concepts or vocabulary prior to lesson presentation. The students can follow along and see the main concepts and terms as you present the lesson.
ADHD kids are easily bored, even by you. Try to increase the pace of lesson presentation. Resist the temptation to get sidetracked. Get excited about your lesson! And communicate your excitement to your students!
Include a variety of learning activities during each lesson. Use multi-sensory presentations, but screen audio?visual aids to be sure that distractions are kept to a minimum. For example, be sure interesting pictures and or sounds relate directly to the material to be learned. Many teachers are now using PowerPoint presentations or Astound presentations for their students with great effect.
Provide self-correcting materials for immediate feedback to the ADD ADHD student.
Use computer assisted instruction, both in terms of the student at a computer, and also in terms of presenting information via PowerPoint presentations.
Use cooperative learning activities, particularly those that assign each teen in a group a specific role or piece of information that must be shared with the group. Pair students to check work. Provide peer tutoring to help ADD ADHD student’s review concepts.
Let ADD ADHD students share recently learned concepts with struggling peers. Use peer tutoring whenever possible. Older students to help your attention deficit students, and perhaps allowing him to tutor a younger student.
The more exciting a subject is to an ADD ADHD students, the better he will learn.
Hopefully these will help the ADHD students in your classroom to be more successful. You can learn more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder at the ADHD Information Library.

Selling or renting real estate is a game of competition. In any market, but particularly in a market like we have been in, it is imperative that you take qualified prospects and usher them into your private presentation domain. We will focus in other articles about how to attract qualified prospects, but for now let’s focus on why you need to get them away from the competition and over to your presentation arena.

By Presentation, we mean any and all mediums you choose to use to present your property in the very best light. What happens when you succeed in getting a Prospect your presentation?

First, you are in a focused environment that is protected from the overcrowded marketplace. You can’t control the way your competitors are going to present their products. You can only control the way you want to present. The marketplace is loud and crazy and competitors are willing to do things that you wouldn’t do just to get ahead. A confused mind is one that will not make a decision. You need to attract them to an environment where all of there focus is on just your Presentation.

Second, you get to present the story the way you want it presented and not the way a listing service says it should be presented. Buyers and renters are hungry for information and will appreciate a different approach. Aggregators and their systems work because they deliver a uniform product to users across all properties. Unfortunately, they sacrifice pizzazz and creativity along the way. You as the property Seller or Renter suffer.

Third, when you control the process, you can guarantee that you will be at your most persuasive 100 percent of the time. This is because you are going to force prospects to listen to your story only after you have polished it and locked it into place. We are not talking about a physical live presentation here. Rather, a pre-prepared presentation that can iterate over and over. No worries about having a bad day, or a sleepless night, or personal problems. Your prospects are going to listen to you every time when you are the most compelling.

Fourth, your presentation will allow you to market on something other than price. Aggregation services, although beneficial to the user/prospect, present lots of competing products in a fashion where everyone looks the same. Unfortunately, the default selection criteria for Prospects in this environment is often–price. By getting your Prospect in front of only your presentation, it will give you the opportunity to persuade someone that your property is special enough that they should pay more than competitors are willing to offer their properties.

Finally, in a protected, focused environment, you can offer your prospect the immediate opportunity to view your real estate, after they have been marketed to and are excited about your property.

As we like say, help your Prospects to get from confusion and uncertainty to focused and directed. Focus all of your marketing on persuading your prospects to come to your private real estate message, whether that is a website or a pre-recorded 800 telephone number. At this point you have the highest chance of capturing a great Prospect for your rental or sale.

Have you noticed how some people manage to make presentations which leave you feeling extremely impressed? You may not know if it’s been the content or the style; but if they were selling, you’d certainly be buying! So what’s their secret?

These presenters know people buy as much on feelings as on facts, so they deliberately design and deliver their presentation to generate particular emotional states in their audience. They:

a) Know what state their audience will be in at the start

b) Decide what state they want them to be in at the end

c) Work out the stepping stone states they need to take them through

d) Lead them through these states in their presentation

By knowing in advance the sequence of these states they’re able to apply the right actions that keep their audience emotionally and mentally engaged with them. Let’s take an example of how you can do this.

Imagine you’re presenting your company’s new service to a group of business people.

a) Define their current state – e.g. Indifferent.

b) Define the desired state – e.g.  Engaged

c) Define the intermediate states – e.g. Skeptical: Curious: Interested

d) Link these states in sequence – e.g. Indifferent – Skeptical – Curious – Interested – Engaged

e) Decide what evidence you need to indicate they are in the state you intend them to be in. e.g. What do you want to hear them say or do?

f) Select an action to move them from one state to the next – e.g. Indifferent – Skeptical:

Talk about a company that has used your new service. (Likely reaction – “Just because it’s worked for them doesn’t mean it’ll work for us.”

Skeptical – Curious:

Pick a specific business issue they are grappling with and show how your service can benefit them. (Likely reaction – “We can see the merits, but can it really work for us?”

Curious – Interested:

Take another of their issues and go into detail about value/cost, modus operandi etc. (Likely reaction – “Yes, we can see the potential and exactly how it could work.”)

Interested – Engaged:

Move into your call for action, whatever that may be.

The actions to lead them through the sequence of states are key. For example, you may conclude that one-to-one meetings might work better at the start, and having a well prepared case-study is essential.

Interestingly as you plan it out you may even realize that a presentation isn’t going to be the best way to get the result you want. And avoiding wasting other people’s time in presentations is a particular value of knowing this secret!