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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