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 (press.jhu.edu/books/title/53916/educators-guid…)

• 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes, by Karen Costa (bookshop.org/a/79174/9781642670851)

• Episode 577: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the Classroom with Jessamyn Neuhaus (teachinginhighered.com/577)

• Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus (bookshop.org/a/79174/9780806195469)

• Episode 578: Learning to Teach, Design, and Rest from Nature with Karen Costa (teachinginhighered.com/578)

• Community of Inquiry Checklist, from Karen Costa (docs.google.com/document/d/1lXo-QGiPBNoNB1xJ8w…)

• Belmont University (belmont.edu)

• The Canary Code, by Ludmila Praslova (thecanarycode.com)

• Blackbird – The Harvard Opportunes (youtu.be/SHUclX7Qn1s?si=wvHWyaQ6LDxTcv56)

• AP 100 Photos of 2025 The Defined the Year (apnews.com/article/associated-press-100-photos…)

• Hard Core Literature (patreon.com/hardcoreliterature)

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