#13 - "Why so many kids can't sit still in school today"

Summary

More and more children are having a hard time sitting still in class. Not only are the children with ADHD suffering, but the other children as well. Students are being forced to sit still in classrooms and if they wiggle, fidget, or need to move they get in trouble. Students as young as kindergarten age are being forced to sit quietly for 30 minutes at a time. As a result their physical and balancing is all messed up because they need so much time to move around for their skills to develop.

How I plan to deal with this issue

When students begin to fidget and wiggle around, the problem lies with the teacher not recognizing the fact that kids need to move to get all that energy out so they can focus. I am quite fidgety in class. I've had this problem since childhood. Although, now I can't just get up and move during class. I've recognized that it is unacceptable behavior as I got older. Now I just play with my pencil, wiggle my feet, fidget with my binder, etc. However, this is still keeping me from paying my full attention to the teacher. There are several different things on pinterest I found to help keep fidgety students occupied. One was to attach a nut and twist to each pencil to allow the children who tend to be a distraction to mess with the pencil rather than cause a disturbance in the classroom. 

Also, I remember certain teachers allowing us to take a 5-10 minute break throughout the day to stretch and walk around the room before we started on the next lesson. This allowed students to break away from the sleepy haze that so many students, including myself, tend to get.