Wise on your way, a program for underachieving gifted young people from secondary schools

In 2012, in the Netherlands and in Belgium, there appeared to be no program available for underachieving young people from secondary schools. The program Wijs op weg [Wise on your way], developed by Sabine Sypré, ECHA-Specialist in Gifted Education, is a program designed for individual guidance of adolescents. It helps gifted students from the age of 12 to 20 years who are underachieving, to feel well and get motivated again. The goal of the program is to re-let the teenagers have fun in school and to make them learn something. The program is based on the workbook The Power in yourself by Jan Kuipers (2011), ECHA-Specialist too, but was fully adapted for adolescents. Specialists in gifted education can use this program as well in schools as in psychologists practices. In this presentation an overview will be given of the various components of the program, clarifying why a component is put in the program for adolescents and why some missing parts that were important to the young people were added to it. One component that gives a new perspective on how the learning process of gifted students in secondary education effects their achievement, will be discussed in detail. The evaluation of this program was subject of the thesis the author had to write for the completion of the ECHA course in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The study examined whether the degree of underperformance after following the program was reduced, and if there was to notice a difference in the attitudes of the youngsters. The results show that the adolescents showed an improvement on an emotional level during the process, which was also observed on an academic level well after the conclusion of the project. According to their parents, the young people had more self-confidence, were less unhappy and felt more understood

Wise on your way, a program for underachieving gifted young people from secondary schools

Sabine Sypré, ECHA-Specialist in Gifted Education, developed a program for underachieving adolescents because there appeared to be no such program available in Belgium and The Netherlands. This program is designed for individual guidance of adolescents. The program is based on the workbook 'The Power in yourself' by Jan Kuipers (2011), ECHA-Specialist too, but was fully adapted for adolescents. The goal of this program 'Wise on your way' is to re-let the youngsters have fun in school and to make them learn something again. Specialists in gifted education can use this program as well in schools as in psychologists practices

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Poster presentation: Wise on your way, a program for underachieving gifted young people from secondary schools

Sabine Sypré, ECHA-Specialist in Gifted Education, developed a program for underachieving adolescents because there appeared to be no such program available in Belgium and The Netherlands. This program is designed for individual guidance of adolescents. The program is based on the workbook 'The Power in yourself' by Jan Kuipers (2011), ECHA-Specialist too, but was fully adapted for adolescents. The goal of this program 'Wise on your way' is to re-let the youngsters have fun in school and to make them learn something again. Specialists in gifted education can use this program as well in schools as in psychologists practices.status: publishe

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