Activating focus, attention, motivation, and curiosity are essential for learning. Students with ADHD, dysgraphia, and similar disorders have a filtering system that thwarts the typical neurobiological cycle. In this webinar, we dive into several “FOCUS TRIGGERS,” instructional facilitation strategies that trigger attention and motivation for all students and prepare them for learning. FOCUS TRIGGERS are part of a checklist that educators and therapists can utilize to inject novelty, belonging, and activate the power of a student’s neurobiology to reengage “just right” learning.
I empower educators and administrators to transform their institutions into distinguished schools within their region. By implementing innovative, multi-sensory lesson planning, I aim to turn these schools into magnets for parents to enroll their students due to unique, literacy-approved writing strategies to bridge all subject matter, especially reading and math. I ensure simple, grab-and-go interventions by facilitating multi-disciplinary co-teaching opportunities. The heart of these 30-second interventions, called Focus Triggers, is grounded in cognitive neuroscience and reengages all students’ attention, motivation, and self-regulation, fostering a fun learning environment for all.
I’m Cheri Dotterer, Lesson Plan Whisperer.
Leveraging my experience as an occupational therapist and substitute teacher, I identified numerous opportunities to benefit from streamlined, multi-sensory strategies to benefit students from gifted to learning support. Allow me to exemplify the effectiveness of FOCUS TRIGGERS with some compelling examples. Your feedback on this narrative will make a difference. I know I have suffered from communication issues my entire life. I now use FOCUS TRIGGERS to manage my day and my treatment with students.