http://www.giftedresources.org/gr/columbuscheetah.htm
Columbus Cheetah, Myth Buster
All students deserve anexcellent education
Gifted students needan appropriate education
Appropriate inLevel Pace Depth
Breadth
PERSONA DOLLShttp://www.persona-doll-training.org/ukhome.html
https://extranet.education.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/DiversityDolls/links.html
Cultural Diversity Week 14 - 21 March 2015http://www.vic.gov.au/news/cultural-diversity-week-2015.html
In Victoria more than 46 per cent of our population are either born overseas, or have at least one parent born overseas. Victorians come from over 200 countries, speak 260 different languages and dialects and follow 135 different faiths.During Cultural Diversity Week, community and cultural groups host hundreds of festivals and events across the state to celebrate Victoria's cultural, linguistic and religious diversity.The Week coincides each year with the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March. http://www.harmony.gov.au/
FACES
Sprite Doll No 1Sprite Doll No 2
I purposely did not give these dolls facial features so that they can represent their type of giftedness without also showing any racial or ethnic characteristics.Gifted and Talented students can be of any racial/ethnic/ cultural/ economic/religious group so it was more helpful for the dolls to be neutral in regard to these aspects of their character.
Neihart and Betts Revised Profiles of the Gifted and Talented.
http://www.ingeniosus.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/PROFILES-BEST-REVISED-MATRIX-2010.pdf
What does MIRANDA the SUCCESSFUL need?
For Mirandahttp://www.byrdseed.com/success-isnt-a-straight-line/
Sprite needs different educational provisions for both her giftedness and her disability simultaneously.
Sprite is always depicted as having an injured left ankle and needing to wear different shoes on each foot to illustrate the concept that she needs different educational provisions for both her giftedness and her disability.
REFERENCESPersonas, Profiles and Portraits bloghttps://jofreitag.wordpress.com/
Gifted Resourceshttp://www.giftedresources.org/
Sprite’s Site bloghttp://spritessite.wordpress.com/
Neihart and Betts Revised Profiles of the Gifted and Talentedhttp://www.ingeniosus.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/PROFILES-BEST-REVISED-MATRIX-2010.pdf
REFERENCES
Persona dollshttp://www.persona-doll-training.org/ukhome.html
Dr Linda Kreger Silverman http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/
Stephanie Tolan Dabrowski's Over-excitabilities A layman's explanationhttp://www.stephanietolan.com/dabrowskis.htm
Stephanie Tolan Is it a cheetah? http://www.stephanietolan.com/is_it_a_cheetah.htm
Passow’s Test of appropriate curriculumhttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/policies/gats/assets/pdf/polsuppcd.pdf p24
All photos and images except Gifted Awareness Week and Australia eSeries logos c. Jo Freitag
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