Presentation for Anne Mirtschin’s Tech Talk Tuesdays webinar series about persona dolls and profiles of the gifted and talented.

1. Personas, profiles and portraits
of giftedness
Jo Freitag

4. http://www.aaegt.net.au/?page_id=1170

5. What do we mean when we say
GIFTED?

6. http://www.giftedresources.org/gr/columbuscheetah.htm
Columbus Cheetah, Myth Buster

7. All students deserve an
excellent education
Gifted students need
an appropriate education
Appropriate in
Level Pace Depth Breadth

8. Gagne’s DMGT Model
Development of natural abilities into fully
developed competencies

9. PERSONA DOLLS
http://www.persona-doll-training.org/ukhome.html
https://extranet.education.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/DiversityDolls/links.html
Cultural Diversity Week 14 - 21 March 2015
http://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/

10. FACES
Sprite Doll No 1
Sprite 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.

11. 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

12. MIRANDA THE SUCCESSFUL

13. What does MIRANDA the SUCCESSFUL need?
For Miranda
http://www.byrdseed.com/success-isnt-a-straight-line/

14. MICHAELA THE CREATIVE

15. What does MICHAELA THE CREATIVE need?

16. FELICITY THE UNDERGROUND GIFTED

17. What does FELICITY THE UNDERGROUND GIFTED need?

18. VINCENT (VINCE) THE AT RISK

19. VINCENT (VINCE) THE AT RISK

20. What does VINCENT (VINCE) THE AT RISK need?

21. EDWARD THE AUTONOMOUS LEARNER

22. What does EDWARD THE AUTONOMOUS LEARNER need?

24. SPRITE THE TWICE EXCEPTIONAL

26. What does SPRITE THE TWICE EXCEPTIONAL need?

27. 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.

28. REFERENCES
Personas, Profiles and Portraits blog
https://jofreitag.wordpress.com/
Gifted Resources
http://www.giftedresources.org/
Sprite’s Site blog
http://spritessite.wordpress.com/
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

29. REFERENCES
Persona dolls
http://www.persona-doll-training.org/ukhome.html
Dr Linda Kreger Silverman
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/
Stephanie Tolan Dabrowski's Over-excitabilities A layman's explanation
http://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 curriculum
http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/policies/gats/assets/pdf/pols
uppcd.pdf p24
All photos and images except Gifted Awareness Week and Australia eSeries
logos c. Jo Freitag

30. @jofrei
jo@giftedresources.org
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