![]() Maria believes that effective educators must continue to learn and grow. in education from Manchester University and earned Advanced Teacher Status for her ability to develop curriculum and her skills within the classroom. Speaker, author, and advocate Maria has been an educator for over 30 years, teaching students and training teachers to tap into the strengths of their gifted and challenged students. Kenned is The Director of the Bridges Educational Group. Students of color are significant in their absence. To be a parent of a gifted child and what you can do to help them succeed when their educational establishment seems determined to ensure their failure.īut if you look at the gifted programs in the United States, you are led to believe that Nina is mistaken. ![]() To be black and undervalued by the people educating you. Join me as I discuss what it is like to be black and not fit the norms. Despite being an educator myself and having the ability to speak the language of his teachers, being black and gifted has not made life easier. Unfortunately, that has not been my experience. When I was a child, my parents said I had to be twice as good as my fellow white students to get half of what they took for granted.įast forward 30 years, as a parent, I expected that life would be better for my son. "To be young, gifted, and black is where it's at." Over 50 years ago, Lorraine Hansberry-the iconic playwright and activist, coined the saying, "young, gifted, and black." Nina Simone used her words in a tribute song to her friend, which I grew up singing without understanding its meaning. MaryGrace Stewart, president emeritus of MAGE and founder of Ideal4Gifted, during November's MAGE Webinar. What if we helped our 2E students see the great strengths of their profiles, supporting the mindset shift from woeful to thankful, improving self-concept through awareness of their weaknesses AND strengths? Explore the strength-based lens of twice exceptionality with Dr. We need to define these students as gifted individuals - because of their strength areas - who happen to need some scaffolding, and not define them by their need for scaffolding. The ADHD child can hyperfocus on their area of passion to get things done. Companies seek out folks with this profile because they can do excellent work with linear concepts like programming. Sequential, fact-based, and right or wrong thinking of many ASD students serves as their superpower. For example, a strength of dyslexia is that of visualization and three-dimensional thinking (which is very useful for architecture and engineering or designing). But all of these have strengths to their profiles too. So often with twice exceptional (2e) children, the adults around them (and the child too!) focus on their deficits and the associated struggles.
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