Weird Idea for a Shrine
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:49 am
After I watched Frozen, I had an idea for not one, but two shrines (what can I say, it's addictive, LOL). The thing is, one of the proposed shrines is unusual, and I wanted to kind of air this idea before I ran with it.
As I watched the movie, my former-middle-school-teacher brain circuits kicked into gear for some random reason, and I began to analyze Elsa and her predicament as I would have done any gifted student that had entered my classroom. I started thinking, "This kid doesn't need to be sequestered away from her sister and taught to confine her gift--she needs an individualized education plan which includes social/emotional education and private magical tutoring!" (LOL, you can tell I paid attention in my Diverse Learners class in grad school xD)
So, I thought about doing a shrine, possibly a one-pager, which would discuss the following:
- How Elsa's upbringing depicts the wrong way to teach/handle a gifted child;
- How Elsa's fears reflect the emotional reality of many gifted kids, being treated as little adults when their hearts are still children;
- What types of education, tutoring, and counseling should have been instituted instead
What do y'all think? Too complicated/technical/weird?
As I watched the movie, my former-middle-school-teacher brain circuits kicked into gear for some random reason, and I began to analyze Elsa and her predicament as I would have done any gifted student that had entered my classroom. I started thinking, "This kid doesn't need to be sequestered away from her sister and taught to confine her gift--she needs an individualized education plan which includes social/emotional education and private magical tutoring!" (LOL, you can tell I paid attention in my Diverse Learners class in grad school xD)
So, I thought about doing a shrine, possibly a one-pager, which would discuss the following:
- How Elsa's upbringing depicts the wrong way to teach/handle a gifted child;
- How Elsa's fears reflect the emotional reality of many gifted kids, being treated as little adults when their hearts are still children;
- What types of education, tutoring, and counseling should have been instituted instead
What do y'all think? Too complicated/technical/weird?