The Study On Class Attention Performance Of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Teachers’ Reaction

In the process of primary school students’ study (grade1to4), attention is the mostbasic and important ability. Therefore to enhance the attention performance becomes thekey to improve the effectiveness of study, especially for those children with ADHDtendency. This study uses questionnaire investigation to discuss attention performance ofchildren with ADHD tendency in different time period of a class and with different tasks.The sample children will be selected by teacher based on requirements, and then thoseteachers will do evaluation according to the class attention performance of these sampleprimary school students on questionnaires. The questionnaire is designed to evaluatechildren’s class attention performance and teacher’s reactions accordingly, which includes4parts:1) The attention performance of sample children in different time period of a class,including the beginning of the class (first10minutes), the middle of the class and the endof the class (last10minutes).2) The attention performance of sample children with different tasks, including classpreparation period, listening to the teacher period, listening to classmates answeringquestion period and free exercising period.3) Teachers’ reactions when face to sample children’s attention performance hassituations or problems, including3types of reactions: reminding, criticizing and askingquestions.4) The effect of teachers’ different reaction to sample children’s attentionperformance.According to the questionnaire results and analysis, several conclusions of this studyare as follows:1) In the different period of a class, the attention performances of primary schoolstudents (grade1to4) do not show a rising tendency by their age increasing. 2) In the different period of a class and for different tasks, the attention performancesof primary school students (grade1to4) show a significant age differences.3) There’s a significant correlation between attention performances of primary schoolstudents (grade1to4) and teachers’ different reaction in class, among those reactions,reminding and asking questions have the best effect.