Feetspeak: 2E Shoes

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How an injured ankle, Gagne's DMGT model and De Bono’s Six Action Shoes helped me consider the needs of Twice Exceptional (2E) students: those who are gifted and have a learning disability    

        


Is there an ideal education program to cater for the needs of students who are both gifted and have a learning disability or difference?

The Feetspeak: 2E Shoes Project began life as a short chatty blog entry about Jo’s injured ankle and difficulty in finding shoes which could cater for both feet and the connection to finding programs for 2E students.

However as she read articles on the topic and started to investigate the type of programs available for both gifted and learning disabled students using Edward De Bono’s Six Action Shoes as a framework to consider courses of action; Jo discovered the reasons it is so difficult to cater simultaneously for both the gifted and learning disabled aspects of the twice exceptional student and also found some helpful practical strategies.

Jo has drawn on the analogies of a  lame cheetah and an injured ankle and used De Bono's Six Action Shoes and Gagne's Differentiation Model of Giftedness and Talent to investigate the types of gifted programs and their suitability for students who also have a learning disability or difference.

The Presentation includes use of Mind Maps and animations, PowerPoints and cartoons developed by Jo

P.D. Sessions include the use of Mind Maps, the animations, PowerPoints and cartoons as well as practical application exercises related to building programs and teaching strategies for 2E students using thinking tools such as S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

A set of cartoon posters and a children's poem picture book with teaching units are also being developed and producing Feetspeak as a DVD is being investigated

The Visual Aids

            

 

The Visual Aids - Mini Set
 (have mini shoes will travel)

 

 

   

The Exercises and Animations

           Along Gagne DMGT Road

              Edward De Bono's Six Action Shoes
 

 

                       Distinguishing characteristics of Gifted and 2E
 

         

     How does your gifted program measure up?
                                                      Which shoe colour elements do you include?

 

                            AdDressing the Feetspeak feet
                                                                                 Building an individualized 2E program

                     S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Thinking about possible
                                                                         methods of adapting material for 2E students

             

                       Let's play hopscotch Strategies for teaching 2E students
 

                 Pleading the Pink Slipper

                      Carrying Stuff - a look at the emotional baggage, intensities and
                                                                                sensitivities 2E students could be carrying

 

                          Good King Wenceslas and the Purple Riding Boots
                                                        Leadership skills programs   Biographies, EUMY units
                                                        Night of the Notables and Mentors and Mentor Programs eg PLIESE

            

              Being developed                   What the IOWA Acceleration Scales says about 2E
 

              Being developed                     Let's visit the Pyramids
                                                          RTI Response to Intervention model
                                                          Renzulli Whole School model
                                                          Piirto Creativity Pyramid

             Being developed                    Wii Fit Balance Board : Testing testing
                                                        Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of 2E students
                                                              

             Being developed                    Gardiners use Blooms to landscape the learning environment

            Being developed                     Autonomous learners

             Being developed                    Telling my story

           

             

               Sprite's Site Blog
                                                          http://www.giftedresources.org/jo/blog/
                 Sprite, the cartoon character who is the poster child for the Feetspeak presentations, has taken on a life
                 of her own and now has her own Blog  and presentations based on her

 

               Presentation about characteristics of gifted and 2E and many other
                                                                      side issues which influence parenting and teaching gifted and 2E students

 

               Poem picture book
                                                                        and associated teaching units (still being developed)
                                                                       

 

 

   

 

 

IF YOU WOULD LIKE JO FREITAG TO GIVE THIS PRESENTATION TO YOUR GROUP OR STAFF PLEASE CONTACT

 Jo Freitag
Gifted Resources
Office
Centre for the Exceptional Learner
Luther College
Plymouth Rd
Croydon Vic 3136
Phone (03) 9724 2452

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PO Box 4176
Croydon Hills
Vic 3136
Phone (03) 9876 1349

Email jo@giftedresources.org
Website www.giftedresources.org

 

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MOST RECENTLY UPDATED 23.10.09