Deb Douglas
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399 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2018
last heard Sep 2018
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I've got to do something different.
Well, she said he got upset with her.
She saw the other kids turn their heads around and she realized suddenly that her anger and her attitude and her saying that this was easy compromise the dignity of the other kids in the class.
The teacher sent a email home to her parents and they were not ready to be told by a teacher that their child was doing something wrong.
So their dignity was compromised.
They called the principal.
The principal's dignity was compromised because he thought that they were complaining about his teachers and he knew he needed to defend his staff.
And as Wendy said to me, it turns out everybody's dignity was compromised and the worst thing is I didn't get what I wanted and needed.
So I think that's a great example of if kids are taught how to ask for what they want.
And also to share with those people who they must ask why it is they want it and why it is better not just for them, but in general why it's a better way of approaching things.
They are much more apt to get what they need and what they want.
Okay, I'm happy to speak about those.
Um, what I've discovered in before I actually came up with my workshop, I was trying to help my students self-advocate throughout the school year and I realized that they did not have the information they needed, they didn't have the insights about themselves or about the system, and they didn't have the tools they needed in order to do it successfully.
This is boring, I hate this, didn't we do this last year?
doesn't go very far in creating change.
And so it occurred to me as I processed all of this that number one, in order to feel that they could self-advocate, my students needed to know they had a right to self-advocate, but also that they had some responsibilities, that it was not just asking for everybody to do something for them.
And we need to think in terms of what those rights and responsibilities were.
And one of the rights comes directly out of the eight great gripes of gifted kids that was collected from surveys by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbreth years and years ago.
And the first great gripe was nobody tells us what gifted is all about.
And I realized that even in my own practice and even in my own role as mother of gifted children, I kept pretty quiet about it for just the reasons you said.
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