An Educator’s Guide to ADHD, with Karen Costa

Karen Costa shares about An Educator’s Guide to ADHD on Episode 606 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

Curiosity is just this sort of force of nature. So tap in to your students creativity, your students passions and interests as a way to support them in reaching and achieving those challenges that you also hold for them.
-Karen Costa

That’s a heavy thing for folks with ADHD to carry, that we are a burden on the other students in the classroom, that we are a burden on our teachers. And that is simply not true.
-Karen Costa

What we know now is that many times those are what are called stims in neurodivergent and ADHD and autistic communities. And those are actually a way that a lot of folks help themselves to stay present and regulated in their bodies so that they can direct their attention to the teacher or to the task at hand.
-Karen Costa

The best thing we can do to make the course real is as an instructor to be present in that online course.
-Karen Costa

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Resources

• An Educator’s Guide to ADHD: Designing and Teaching for Student Success, by Karen Costa
• 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes, by Karen Costa
• Episode 577: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom with Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Episode 578: Learning to Teach, Design, and Rest from Nature with Karen Costa
• Community of Inquiry Checklist, from Karen Costa
• Belmont University
• The Canary Code, by Ludmila Praslova
• Blackbird – The Harvard Opportunes
• AP 100 Photos of 2025 The Defined the Year
• Hard Core Literature

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