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    Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities

    Overexcitability Characteristics Ways schools can support these students

    Psychomotor

    Sensual

    Imaginational

    Intellectual

    Emotional
    Possible Responses

    Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities
    Overexcitability Characteristics Ways schools can support these students
    • Movers and shakers • Nervous habits • Provide standing desks
    • Active and energetic • Love of kinesthetic • Allow students to take breaks to walk around
    Psychomotor • Rapid speech movement • Provide balance ball chairs
    • Animated facial gestures • Hyper • Have rocking chairs students can sit in during discussions
    • Enthusiasm • Need for much less sleep in • Offer more sections of PE
    infancy • Increase recess time
    • Sensory experiences are • Scents can positively or • Listen when children talk about being bugged by scents or light
    heightened negatively effect • Have a low light corner of the room
    Sensual • Ex: must have tags removed • Buzzing/flickering lights • Create a sensory wall with different fabrics
    from shirts, refuse to wear could bother • Kindergarten teacher can have soft animals for students
    certain fabrics
    • Imaginary companions or • Enjoy poetry and drama • Connect students with art and drama teachers
    pets • Science fiction and fantasy • Allow students to choose the book of their choice relating to
    • Think in images • Great sense of humor assignments
    Imaginational
    • Use metaphorical language • Give students options for showing mastery of content in a
    • Highly creative creative way
    • Allow student to have 5 minutes of fame at the beginning of the
    class to tell jokes
    • Curiosity • Introspection • Use engaging and rich tasks in curriculum
    • Concentration • Capacity for sustained • Provide additional reading material related to content
    Intellectual • Love of learning and intellectual effort • Design in-depth projects that require students to research
    problem solving • Readers complex problems
    • Theoretical thinking

    • Experience extreme and • Guilt • Help facilitate community service opportunities


    complex emotions and • Anxiety • Teach productive ways to respond to injustice
    Emotional intense feelings • Wearing hearts on their • Preview content before showing in class and advise students
    • Heightened concern for and sleeves who may be overly affected beforehand
    reaction to environment • Intuitive • Support social action and volunteering
    around them • Take action such as • Set up discussion groups for students to talk about their feelings
    • Empathy protesting, volunteering, or
    • Self-criticism fundraising
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