Heidi Nord

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 011: Heidi Nord on the Challenges and Gifts of Dyslexia · 7 Jun 2016 podcast

So if a teacher thinks that his or her students aren't very bright, the students pick up on that.

Kids are really smart and they they know they can sense it.

And then they start not doing as well because they're believing that maybe the teacher is right, that I'm not very bright.

So that whole teacher interaction is really pivotal because if a teacher has an openness of what they are seeing in the classroom and maybe how intelligence is displayed.

Then they're going to have a very positive effect on the student.

It's almost like dominoes, they just, you know, line up and fall into place because then the student believes really good things about themselves too.

So that whole mindset piece is very important in the classroom.

Yes.

So there's a study called the Pygmalion effect.

where researchers told a group of teachers at a school that they had they each had five students in their classroom who were exceptionally bright.

And what happened over the course of the year is those students made more progress.

But the truth is those children were chosen randomly.

And you know, and I tell teachers about that study so they can connect the dots that their interaction with the student does make a difference.

And it's it is a big part of what I do and what I try to teach students to do because it's really important to empower students so they have.

the self confidence to know their gifts and talents.

And not let a teacher sway it too much, if that makes sense.

I agree.

Sometimes I look at education and

You know, if there was one thing that, you know, I could shift, you know, and obviously dyslexia is a big thing, but even just the mindset work alone, because sometimes we start thinking, oh, well, if there was more funding and more money in schools, or if we had different materials.

I mean, I've seen materials, you know, classroom book adoptions change every

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