Deploy prevention and intervention supports for underachieving gifted students¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief enumerates practices found successful in preventing or reversing gifted underachievement: early screening and identification (as early as kindergarten), meaningful extracurricular activities, counseling, mentoring, targeted tutoring, home-school partnerships, school-based consultants, and dual-diagnosis screening for twice-exceptional students. Each addresses needs the literature links to underachievement, such as low motivation, poor teacher relationships, and unmet affective needs.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Availability of services within a comprehensive continuum addressing the needs of underachieving gifted students

Constraints¶

• Schools cannot undo the negative effects of children's situations and environments, but can develop strategies and interventions that support achievement

Target Learners¶

• Underachieving gifted students, including twice-exceptional students and gifted English language learners

Target Learning Goals¶

• Prevent or reverse underachievement and support reading achievement and work habits

Related Strategies¶

• Response To Intervention

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Gifted and talented students at risk for underachievement. (2008). Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement Issue Brief. https://www.centerforcsri.org