All The Tools You Need To Support Your Gifted Student
Having a student identified as gifted can be both exciting and taxing. You want to make sure that they are supported, but also may not be sure what that is. The following guide is here to help you support your gifted child and understand their needs in and out of school. It includes terminology, 7 detailed ways to support, activities for social emotional learning, and a list of extra resources that may be helpful to you.
Ultimately, this guide should help you understand what your gifted child needs as they move through their high school academic careers and move onto the next step. Things such as the terminology may seem overwhelming as there is a lot of information here.
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Includes 4 Different Resources to Support Parents of High School Gifted Students
This guide includes four distinct sections that detail exactly how to navigate your students academic journey.
Below you will see more information on each resource:
- What does it mean to have a gifted student
- Gifted Terminology
- 7 Ways to Support Your Gifted Child in High School
- Extra Resources.
What does it mean to have a gifted student?
In this section, I explain what the technical criteria are for a student being considered gifted as well as a realistic overview of what that means in and outside of school.
Gifted Terminology
The gifted terminology glossary includes the essential terms that may come up in academic settings for your gifted child. Knowing these terms, you can better navigate IEP and course choices for your child. I have also curated the most important terms (so that the list is not overwhelming) and rewrote definitions to be easier to understand.
7 Ways to Support Your Gifted Child in High School
These strategies and techniques to help gifted students in middle and high school include actionable activities and necessary elements to incorporate into a gifted student's day-to-day. This covers everything from creating a routine to choosing classes.
Extra Resources
I have curated several websites that you can go to to seek additional help outside of this guide. These range from national groups to individual tutoring help.
Sneak Peek From Inside The Guide
Take this one step at a time and when you are ready. This is not a sprint, it is a marathon as your gifted child moves through puberty, self criticism, and frustration when things do not come as easily as they may have previously.
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Having a child with giftedness is a complex task and it means working as a village to support your child. He/She/They may become hyper focused on certain tasks or may even have trouble starting assignments at all. There are several characteristics that most gifted students share. There is of course the intellectual side showing an advanced interest and comprehension in a certain subject. However, this does not mean that a child/teen is gifted in all subject areas. Most will lean more toward math/science or English/history. This means that students may find the opposite side more frustrating as they are used to understanding things quickly. This is more common than you may think with gifted students and often overlooked.
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Overall, having a gifted student takes a little more time and patience. There is more need for engagement and understanding of their needs. However, once you can see these needs and clearly identify them, you are better positioned to support your gifted child. The rest of this resource guide will help you with that understanding and give you straight forward strategies to support them in and outside the classroom.
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Have an outlet for a gifted student’s creativity. This can be in the form of art,
content creation, coding, learning a new skill, music, etc. Give students the
space and opportunity to find what they can be creative in, even if it is not
the same as what you may define as creativity. Encourage students to work toward this creativity in school and outside of school. You might also
suggest this activity when you see your student becoming stressed, agitated, or overwhelmed by something to help them calm down or process.
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