This document discusses support for gifted and talented students who experience stress and challenges with outputting their ideas. It notes that while these students have rapid learning and understanding, outputting their ideas through execution can be difficult. Some key reasons for stress are information overload and challenges organizing ideas for writing essays, reports or projects. The document provides tips for self-organization strategies and executive functions that can help with effective output, such as planning, focusing, managing emotions and monitoring progress. It concludes by offering self-help tips and information on learning from true stories of other gifted students.

1. We Need Support
Too!
Self Organization
Strategies
Specially designed to the gifted and talented
community

2. Self Organization Strategies
1.0
October 1st 2010
Overview
Why stress?
When?
What support they
need?
Self Help Tips
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3. Research
IQ 
Efficient Connection
Rapid Learner
Passionate
Innovative
Intense
Bright students
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4. Personality Characteristics (性格上的特性)
Insightfulness (富洞察力)
Need to understand (尋根究底)
Need for mental stimulation (`喜愛動腦筋)
Perfectionism (追求完美)
Need for precision / logic (要求精確解說)
Excellent sense of humor (富幽默感)
Sensitivity/empathy ( 感同身受)
Intensity (反應強烈)
Perseverance(堅毅不懈)
Acute self-awareness (敏銳的自省力)
Nonconformity(不盲從附和)
Questioning of rules/authority ( 挑戰權威 不滿因循)
Tendency toward introversion (較含蓄內儉)

5. Intellectual Characteristics (智力上的特性)
Exceptional reasoning ability (推理能力優越)
Intellectual curiosity (求知慾很強)
Rapid learning rate ( 領略力強)
Facility with abstraction (容易掌握抽象的概念)
Complex thought processes (思維複雜)
Vivid imagination (生動活潑的想像力)
Early moral concern (擇善固執)
Passion for learning (好學不倦)
Powers of concentration (遇有興趣 專注非常)
Analytical thinking (分析力強)
Divergent thinking / creativity (眼光獨到 見解精闢)
Keen sense of justice (富正義感)
Capacity for reflection (深入反思)

6. Stressed?
Yes!
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7. Most people just don’t notice
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8. What made them
stressed?
Most students with Superior
Intelligence (i.e. Full Scale IQ 120
or plus on some normative IQ
tests), are keen on rapid learning
and understanding concepts.
When it comes to output performance, we’d know
that
Understanding ≠
Execution
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9. Support When?
Learn to Organize
• Data
Format
• Amount
Input
• Depth
&Width
• Save for
Retrieval
Processi
ng
• Organize
• Monitor
Quality
Output
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Some bright students experience the challenges of information overload.
Extra effort is needed to get organized for earning quality outcomes.

10. Support When?
Support to Output
• Data
Format
• Amount
Input
• Depth
&Width
• Save for
Retrieval
Processi
ng
• Organize
• Monitor
Quality
Output
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✓Mayb
e
PreferablyNo
When writing essay, report, presentation project, there may be
challenges of ideas overload. For more efficient mental traffic, it is
beneficial to receive some

11. What Support?
Effective Output –
Executive Functions
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12. Executive Functions Refer to……
Executive
Functions
Organizing,
prioritizing
& activating
to work
Focusing,
sustaining
focus
& shifting
focus to tasks
Regulating
alertness,
sustaining
effort &
processing
speed
Managing
frustration &
modulating
emotions
Utilizing
working
memory &
accessing
recall
Monitoring
&
self-regulating
action
1.
Activation
2.
Focus
3.
Effort
4.
Emotion
5.
Memory
6.
Action
Brown T.E. Manual for Attention Deficit Deficit Disorder Scales for Children and Adolescents (2001)

13. 9 Self Help Tips
Ask for ASSISTANCE (Talk with someone)
Stress Rating of your output barriers
Plan backward (from deadline)
Give up “perfect standards” not getting you great marks this time
Name the tasks to someone to cheer you up
Sequence the tasks and report to that the cheering person
Manageable Segment (e.g. 15 min) then expand it slowly
Time check a few times a day
Celebrate when it’s done
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14. Self Organization Strategies
1.0
October 1st 2010
Summary
 Bright Student Stressed Out Too
 Yes, they Need Support
 When What How
 Self Help Tips
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15. Hi, this is Jo
Contact us:
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“Output Difficulty”?
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16. True Stories
Learn more from some true life
stories ?
☐No  ☐Yes 
 Share what other gifted peers’
journey of discovering the
“Freedom to Learn”. Please visit
www.adhdlol.blogspot.com
 Parents or Caregivers- Contact us if
the output stress goes too costly
(anger, conflicts, repeated failures
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