Dr. Michael Postma
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697 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2017
last heard Jul 2022
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It's it's not heavy details.
But it's written so that, you know, the layman, the teacher with not a lot of training can go in there and just take some hints and some strategies and get in the classroom and do a few things that might help.
Um, but it is also written for parents.
The first half is really developmental.
Um the second half is more education approach.
And even back in the day when I was still uh you know, working in the field of gifted ed uh in a school system
I had teachers that really that were gifted and teachers that didn't quite understand the two e child.
So that's even more motivation that even within the gifted community we have uh misunderstandings and a need for more support.
Well and I and I think part of it is is you know, we we still run our schools in a bit of an old fashioned style.
It's still very agrarian in a in a sense where they were pushing them through, you know, period after period after period and you know, certain content content, content heavy
Um, I think education in itself needs to be revitalized and and revamped.
We have tired teachers that are seeing so many kids per day that are getting very little time for planning and you know, they're not set up.
to be successful with these kind of kids.
Um so part of the onus is on our administration and on uh then the government in in terms of really taking a look at how we teach our kids and maybe uh you know adja adjusting that to a point where we actually have more contact
individual contact, more holistic like I talked about before, holistic development versus just, you know, we gotta get through this curriculum, we've got to get through the curriculum.
We call it the tyranny of the curriculum.
And there's there's ways to get around that.
Um our whole the culture of testing has taken over.
And and that's you know, all these things are are pressure and anxiety points.
Um they're not good for teachers, they're not good for kids, they're not good for families.
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