Informational Meetings
Helping your gifted child with planning,
organization, and follow through.
Gifted students by definition have an area of remarkable ability; however, their asynchronous development often involves average (or even below average) skill in getting things done, i.e. executive functioning skills.
From assignments they don’t know they need to do, to assignments they did but never turned in and much more, poor executive functioning skills jeopardize a gifted child’s ability to reach their potential in their area of strength. It can be very difficult as a caregiver to adapt to this divergence of abilities.
The book, Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare describes the components of executive functioning and has concrete advice for how to assess yourself and children and how to go through the process of change while using a child’s unique strengths to overcome some of their weaknesses. This presentation is intended to get you started with the Smart but Scattered method.
This discussion will be geared toward parents of middle school/junior high aged students (roughly ages 9-13).
This Info Night will be available as an In-Person meeting as well as a Virtual Zoom call. There is no fee to attend. Registration is required.
- The In-Person meeting will be held at Covington Classical Academy: 525 Scott Street, Covington
- If you register for the Virtual Zoom call, CCA will email you the log-in information.
Covington Classical Academy is NKY's only private, independent school for students in 8th through 12th grade. If you would like to learn more about CCA or set up a personal tour, please visit our Schedule a Tour page.
