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.

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

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