Tjahjono, Evy and Sutrisno, Gracia Tiffany (2022) Role Of Parents In Assisting Gifted Students Optimizing Their Learning Potential: Among Learning, Social, And Emotional Issues. In: The 3rd International Congress on Gifted Youth and Sustainability of Education (ICGYSE), December 11-12, 2022, Antalya (online managed), Turkiye.
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Abstract
The present study aims to identify learning problems of the gifted students due to their specific intellectual, social, and emotional characteristic, role of parent in assisting gifted students in their learning process, and strategies of parent in assisting gifted students to optimize their learning processes. Though gifted students were very smart, their specific intellectual, social, and emotional characteristics could lead to some learning problems such as boredom in various kind. Therefore, gifted students needed parental support or assistance when dealing with their learning problems. Role of parent was important in helping gifted students optimizing their potentials through learning processes. However, lack of information and training for parent in supporting their gifted children could lead to some obstacles in optimizing gifted students learning processes. Parent needed some strategies to help their gifted students learning effectively so they could actualize their potentials optimally. This research was aqualitative reseach using realism paradigm. Data were collected from four gifted students at elementary school level, three parents (father and mother) of the gifted students, and a single mother of a gifted student. Depth interviews were used for collecting data from students and parents. Data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Findings from this research were (1) intellectual, social, and emotional characteristics in gifted students led to some learning problems so they required parental assistance to deal with those problems; (2) children’s learning problems accompanied by misperception from their surrounding about gifted students eliciting parents’ negative emotions so they might feel inconvenient while assisting their children dealing with learning problems. (3) parents used specific stategies while assisting gifted children to deal with their learning problems. Those strategies were: using flexible methods or strategies in learning, communicating effectively through discussions, and applying specific learning strategies. Those strategies were reported as some effective strategies in supporting gifted students struggling with their learning problems; (4). learning flexibility was important in supporting gifted students in learning. Flexibility in providing facilities, using specific learning methods, organizing learning environment, and involving children in designing their learning process was found effective to solve the gifted learning problems; (5). community was one of the source of information about parenting or assisting gifted students in learning. It was recommended to increase awareness and conduct furthermore research related to optimalization of gifted children’s learning process strategies.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | gifted student,learning problem, assistance, parental role, strategy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Psychology > Department of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Evy Tjahjono 196001 |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2023 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2023 02:04 |
| URI: | http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/43508 |
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