E01 - SEMH & ADHD teacher and TikTok star Jamie Gilbert shares his trailblazing methods.

Jamie Gilbert is a passionate advocate of SEMH education, working with the Department for Education to raise awareness of the issues SEMH teachers and children face. He’s also a content creator with over a million followers, and uses his platform to share a positive understanding of SEMH and ADHD conditions.

Jamie has ten years of teaching experience and runs SEMH United, a football club for SEMH students in the North East of England.

00:00 Intro

00:33 Teaching found me, as a child I wanted to be a Weapons System Officer.

05:25 There are specific things I do each day which have a huge impact upon my children.

08:29 Why does your classroom look the way it does?

09:53 How we changed our approach and my advice to ALL parents.

13:28 Does your school have a padded cell?

16:40 There’s a defective gene DRD2 which affects dopamine and emotions.

17:29 SEMH United

20:18 What do the acronyms SEMH, PRU, ADHD, EHCP, EBD stand for?

21:55 How I enable my ADHD children to focus.

23:22 Part of our curriculum is learning about autism, Asperge’s, dyslexia and ODD.

25:24 Hyperfocus, OFSTED, Primary and Secondary

28:34 ADHD was only officially recognised by the NHS in the year 2000

29:49 There’s so much negative stigma, “It’s bad parenting.” It’s not!

32:27 Teaching strategies, rewards, engagement and painting nails.

36:54 How to repair relationships and crisis strategies

41:19 Does it ever go wrong?

45:19 The aim of our school and what does behaviour really mean.

45:58 The journey to over a million TikTok followers.

49:30 The next steps for Mr G and the SEMH curriculum.

52:30 What the curriculum could look like.

53:57 Key advice to teachers and parents.

56:17 Medication

57:59 Have children suffered from their time in mainstream?

60:15 Isolations and detentions

64:16 Jamie’s advice to teachers in the early stages of their career.

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