A Recipe for Thriving: Setting 2e Students Up for Success, Part 2 of 3

Asynchrony, flexibility, and friendship

This month I’m diving into the five best practices for serving twice-exceptional children in the classroom, as developed by luminary Dr. Susan Baum and her colleagues. In Part 1, we unpacked what it means to create a psychologically safe environment, and today we’ll explore the next three characteristics, as bolded below:

1. A psychologically safe environment

2. Tolerance for asynchrony

3. Time

4. The opportunity to forge positive relationships

5. A strength-based, talent-focused environment (Baum, et. al. 2017)

Again, I’ll be using Joey’s experiences to help highlight these practices; she’s a ten-year-old amalgamation of all the students I’ve had the great joy of working with over the years. If you missed her story, read more about her here and here.