Deb Douglas
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399 appearances
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first heard Sep 2018
last heard Sep 2018
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What is it that you want um that will make school better for you?
And most of the kids did not know how to answer.
And I realized that I really hadn't allowed them to be partners in their education, that we had been doing gifted education to them and through their parents, but I really wanted to find a way for
the students to really feel like they were taking the lead.
And that's when I began focusing on self advocacy.
Well, I um retired early from that position and I've been an educational consultant for the past ten years now, primarily doing workshops for gifted students, um, what I call a one-day jump start to self-advocacy, a way for us to um begin to help students focus on why they might want to self-advocate and how they can do that successfully.
Um, I also do professional development for teachers, teams of educators who can support the gifted students' self-advocacy in their districts.
And I also um fortunately have been invited to speak at a lot of conferences both here in the US and most recently at the Etcha conference in Dublin, Ireland.
uh last summer at the World Conference in Sydney, Australia.
So I'm I'm having wonderful experiences to meet people from around the world and and share my passion for helping gifted kids speak out and craft their own route through school and through life.
Well, my workshops are intended for kids in transition from, for instance, in the States or from elementary to middle school or from middle school to high school.
But I believe that we as parents and as educators should be helping gifted kids recognize their needs and learn to ask for what they need as early as possible.
Here in the United States, especially, elementary schools may be quite good at providing for the needs of gifted kids and especially if they're in a classroom where the teacher knows them well and knows how to differentiate work.
But by middle school, frequently kids are in more heterogeneous settings and teachers have a whole lot more um individual students they're responsible for and may not.
know the students as well as an elementary teacher who has them all day, all year.
Plus, by the time our kids are approaching adolescence, they are less likely to want us as parents.
Stepping in and advocating for them.
So I think it's a lifetime skill.
Self-advocacy is a lifetime skill that can benefit everybody, all students, all human beings.
Um, but it's especially important for kids who are outliers.
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