How are organizational skills taught?
Many gifted children need to be overtly taught how to be organized. Students need to be taught how to keep an assignment notebook and folder. At University School we often have “backpack and locker dumps.” This is a time to take out everything from the locker or backpack and reorganize it. Organization is not something that all children know intuitively. In fact, gifted children sometimes seem to need more help with this than others. Disorganization becomes an excuse with teachers hearing “I know I did that homework, I just can’t find it.” University School students learn to use an assignment notebook, how to be responsible for turning work in on time.
