Nuggets for teachers 1: Dr Bettina Hohnen - - How the latest research in neuroscience will improve your teaching

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Nip in the Bud Nuggets for teachers

In these short podcast clips, we offer nuggets of information from our longer podcasts that give advice and quick tips to help you as teachers recognise children’s needs and respond more efficiently, empowering you to adapt teaching effectively.

This clip is from my long form podcast with Dr Bettina Hohnan titled Neurodiversity: how to parent and educate neurodiverse brains effectively.

Bettina is a Clinical Psychologist, author and speaker working in the field of child mental health and neurodiversity.

Here we discuss how teachers step in to a child’s life as an attachment figure. She explains the importance of building relationships to understand individual needs and as teachers how we can properly label behaviour rather than the child.

Bettina goes on to speak about the important developments in the field of neuroscience and the research that teachers need to know in order to be able to understand neurodiversity in the classroom so that they can to develop their pedagogy.
If you are looking for ways to develop your adaptive teaching skills then this short podcast will give you ideas you can immediately use in the class room with a range of pupils.
In the UK, the SEND code of practice talks about the need for schools to ensure high quality provision is in place to meet the needs of children and young people with SEN. If you are a school leader or a SENDCO with a responsibility to support teachers in providing high quality provision, then listen and share this episode and then go to the long form for more information and advice that can also be shared with parents.

Links and further reading:
Dr Bettina Hohnen is also partnering with Nip in the Bud to do weekly vlogs answering your questions and sharing further advice.
Dr Bettina Hohnen website (including links to her books:
The Incredible Teenage Brain by Bettina Hohnen, Jane Gilmour and Tara Murphy
How to have incredible conversations with your child by Jane Gilmour and Bettina Hohnen
https://drbettinahohnen.com/

Smart but Scattered: The revolutionary "Executive Skills' approach to helping kids reach their potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
https://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/

Executive Function skills in the classroom: overcoming barriers, building strategies by Laurie Faith, Carol-Anne Bush

Please follow Dr Bettina Hohnen on social media for tips and ideas about strengthening relationships with your kids
Instagram: drbettinahohnen
Twitter: bettinahohnen

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1. Nuggets for teachers 1: Dr Bettina Hohnen - - How the latest research in neuroscience will improve your teaching (00:00:00)

2. Teachers as attachment figures (00:00:53)

3. Labelling behaviour (00:01:36)

4. Understanding individual differences (00:02:05)

5. Neuroscience and brain development (00:02:48)

6. A feeling of safety in the classroom (00:03:52)

7. How do you support a disregulated child? (00:05:46)

8. Importance of an attachment figure (00:07:17)

9. Being with emotions for teachers (00:09:30)

10. Report cards in schools (00:11:04)