Dr. Michael Postma

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 086: Dr. Michael Postma of SENG on the Plight of Gifted and 2e Kids · 5 Dec 2017 podcast

I've always said when I hired teachers in the past, I said, I can teach you all the skills, but I can't teach you empathy.

And if you don't have the empathy, it's very difficult to teach one of these children.

Thanks for having me.

OK, I'll give you the condensed version of this because it's a long story.

But I grew up in Canada and back in the day, we didn't have a lot of programming for gifted or for twice exceptional students.

And I grew up with ADD, some Asperger's and got through school.

No problem, because, as you know, gifted kids can camouflage quite easily.

But part of the issue was the social-emotional development wasn't there and that asynchronous piece really affected me to a point where I struggled with depression for quite some time, even up through my adulthood.

And it was then that when I started discovering exactly who I was that I moved into the realm of gifted education because I

There was a lot being done at that time, but not a lot in terms of those that were a little bit different, that were not your typical gifted achieving type student.

And so that kind of motivated me to go into the industry and get my master's degree in it.

And eventually did my doctoral work in leadership and in critical pedagogy as related to gifted education.

But that's kind of the background as to where I'm coming from.

And then having my own children and realizing that they were not your typical GT children themselves really opened my eyes and really pushed me into that direction of writing and speaking.

And saying has a personal aspect in that it's that really hits that social emotional foundation, which I think is actually the key to academic growth and academic achieving that potential.

We often ignore that piece in our schools, and it is detrimental that we only teach to the academic.

We have to teach to the whole person.

So that's a little bit of background.

Obviously, it's much more complicated than that, but that is where we are right now.

That's actually a good question because you're right.

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