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Shenanigans NAGC 2019
This document discusses the importance of play for gifted students. It argues that play is essential for healthy brain development, creativity and innovation. It promotes giving students freedom to experiment, freedom to fail, freedom of identity and freedom of effort. Some key ideas discussed are normalizing failure, celebrating risk-taking, including identity play in the curriculum and allowing choice and self-directed effort. The overall message is that educators should make more space for play in gifted classrooms and programs.
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Shenanigans NAGC 2019
- 1. SHENANIGANS!PRIORITIZING PLAYIN YOURGIFTED CLASSROOM,PROGRAM,& SCHOOL MEREDITH HAFER MELISSA BILASH BRIAN HOUSAND
- 2. Resources AVAILABLE AFTERTHE PRESENTATION
- 3. THANK YOU! SPECIAL SCHOOLS &PROGRAMS NETWORK LYNETTE BREEDLOVE | CHAIR
- 4. she·nan·i·gans /SHә nanә әnz/ Noun Sillyor high-spirited behavior; mischief.
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- 6. PLAY!An activity thatis intrinsically motivated, entails active engagement, and results in joyful discovery. (Yougman, Garner, Hutchinson, et al., 2018)
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- 9. REMEMBER A time whenyou played so hard that you lost track of time.
- 10. When did itbecome unacceptable to play? REMEMBER
- 11. A child who doesnot play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. Pablo Neruda
- 12. “We don’t stopplaying “because we grow old; “we grow old “because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw zacharyscottphoto.format.com
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- 15. PLAY IS ESSENTIAL FORHEALTHY BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
- 16. Play is tothe 21st century what work was to industrialization. It demonstrates a way of knowing, doing,and creating value.
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- 18. What does itmean to be GIFTED?
- 19. NRC G/T THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER ONTHE GIFTED AND TALENTED The University of Connecticut The University of Georgia The University of Virginia Yale University The University of Georgia A New Window for Looking at Gifted Children Mary M. Frasier Darlene Martin Jaime Garcia Vernon S. Finley Elaine Frank Sally Krisel Lisa L. King The University of Georgia Athens, Georgia September 1995 Number RM95222 bit.ly/frasier-tabs MOTIVATION INTERESTS COMMUNICATION SKILLS PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY MEMORY INQUIRY INSIGHT REASONING IMAGINATION/CREATIVITY HUMOR
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- 22. “Perhaps the artsof “benign chicanery “are absolutely necessary “to a child of highest “intelligence, “compelled to find his “spiritual way through “mass education.” Leta Hollingworth
- 23. “I am honest “exceptfor those “benign chicaneries “which are “occasionally “necessary when “authority is stupid.” Leta Hollingworth
- 25. OUR MISSION To providegifted children with a challenging, research-based education worthy of their intellect and their intrinsic desire to learn and think deeply. To serve as a valued resource for the gifted education community in Philadelphia and worldwide.
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- 29. IMAGINE How could you makemore space for play in your own schools & classrooms?
- 30. FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT FREEDOMTO FAIL FREEDOM OF IDENTITY FREEDOM OF EFFORT SCOT OSTERWEIL | MIT
- 31. The four freedomsare. NOT just for kids. The four freedoms are. for you.
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- 36. Fussy, shivering amoeba wholives on a dot grid Happy, warm amoeba with its fancy blanket
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- 40. Takeaway“Buy back” time “forplay with “pre-assessment “& compacting “Create a culture “of collaboration
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- 42. No.That’s just amistake. You need to fail bigger.
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- 44. NOsARE FREE - MELISSABILASH
- 48. Normalize and Practice Failure Celebrate MeaningfulRisk Model Courage and Audacity Takeaway
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- 52. Power is thepivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong. Niccolò Machiavelli
- 55. They are manyages in one child: a delight-driven, joy-seeking, creatively mucky young child one moment, and a years-ahead thinker-philosopher-scientist-conceptualizer the next. — P. Susan Jackson | The Daimon Institute All in one child.
- 56. Include opportunities for identity playin your curriculum Support students' ever-changing identities Takeaway
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- 61. LIVE ACTION ROLE PLAYING "This is nonsenseand I love it!" — Dexter
- 62. "The rule wins becauseit is the strongest impulse. Such a rule is an internal rule, a rule of self-restraint and self-determination." Lev Vygotsky
- 63. Encourage the Modulation ofEffort Provide Choice Step Back Takeaway
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- 66. WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? WHATDO YOU WONDER?
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- 70. ANCHOR + TOOL+ ROPE
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- 80. The creation of somethingnew is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct. Carl Jung
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