33. Neurodiverse Classrooms with Millie Carr

Jane interviews Millie Car from Millie Carr Books. Millie has ADHD, three neurodiverse children and is a primary school teacher in Melbourne. Highlights - Millie talks about proactively setting up the classroom for neurodiverse learning from day one, let's not wait for something to happen, let's get ahead of it. - This is great for diagnosed kids, pre-diagnosis kids or undetected kids by just NOT expecting all kids to act neurotypical. - Can we cater to multiple diagnosis' with one approach ie. small changes in the classroom can make a big difference. - Expectations on parents vs expectation on teachers. - Home work expectations - can we all just do the bare minimum please? - The changes to inclusion being implemented in Australia. - Millie talks passionately about creating a culture of accepting all different students, how can we change the culture in schools? - Teachers need time set aside for professional development for ADHD, ASD and neurodiversities. We can't expect them to just know. - Jane calls for an overhaul of the education system (yet again). - Millie discusses the teacher shortage and Jane discusses how it feels to be a parent where it feels the principal is always on the teacher's side. - Jane loses her shit and gets on the high horse and regrets some of her wording about schooling system and the mental health crisis in our young people. - Primary vs secondary education and how inclusion works. - Millie and Jane discuss how yelling at neurodiverse kids just doesn't work. - Why have we moved forward with inclusion in the workforce but not in schools? - Are we getting to a place now that we know the system isn't working but we don't know what to do differently? - Millie gives advice on how she personally would pick a school for her child, what to look for, what to avoid. - Millie and Jane discuss private vs public (controversial topics lol) Check out Millie Carr's books on ADHD at https://milliecarrbooks.com/ (https://milliecarrbooks.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jane-mcfadden/message