3.1.8 Supportive Strategies for Guiding Twice/Multi-Exceptional Learners, Their Parents, and Teachers in Diverse Schooling Situations

We applied various strategies from our afterschool program into a homeschool setting for twice-exceptional children. The goal was to create an environment to nurture children’s abilities without allowing their learning difficulties to stunt their development. We will analyze different strategies and give advice on how to develop afterschool programs for gifted and homeschooled children that create opportunities to nurture talent. These proven, successful strategies allow students to develop their academic social and emotional sides, become well-rounded individuals with the ability to think and make the best choices, and develop into intrinsically self-motivated lifelong learners. We will soon be starting these same workshops online.

Author(s):

Raquel Bronsoler
rbronsoler@gmail.com
Universidad de Los Niños
Mexico

Raquel started and developed an afterschool program specially tailored to teach children with special abilities. There were very few or non existent programs for gifted children. It was created to contribute to the understanding of the behavioral characteristics of gifted children while nurturing their talents. The workshop programs have enabled gifted children to discover themselves as individuals. To become thinkers and creators who are not afraid to be themselves. Most of our alumni have a taproot gained in our program which has lead them as respectable, successful individuals using their abilities to benefit themselves and society.