Each year gifted education teachers from around the state have a conference called the Gifted Teacher Share Fair. At this year's Share Fair, a teacher shared a lesson about helping students understand what being gifted means. Through this lesson, students explored what their gifts are, how they can use them to achieve great things, and how they use their gifts to help others. Also in the lesson, students are reminded that nobody is perfect as well as recognizing that EVERYONE has a gift and is special.
Students learned to create paper doll chains which was great fun! There are youtube videos that are great tutorials for learning to cut a paper doll chain. Each student cut their own paper doll chain and decorated the front to look like themselves. Inside each chain, there was a doll with five sentences: I have a gift, Everyone is special, Nobody is perfect, I can use my gifts to achieve great things, and I can use my gifts to help others. The last doll has the student's autograph and date while the remaining dolls held ideas of how the students can help others or use their gifts to achieve great things.
This lesson was a great way for students to look at themselves and decide to make a difference while analyzing what their own gifts might be. Students will take home these paper people to decorate their Christmas trees. For the trees at the board of education office and Marshall Medical Center South, we made tiny paper doll chains where each student wrote their name on one doll and decorated the next to look like themselves then asked a friend to do the same. The ending product was a chain of all GATE friends holding hands! I love it!
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