Comments on: Helping Gifted Students Cope with Perfectionism

By: Susanna Solano

Susanna Solano — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:18:57 +0000

The article’s six suggestions are very practical and straightforward, but hard for the perfectionist to implement. As teachers, we need to gently guide our students toward these steps to get them to allow themselves to be imperfect.

By: Karen Murphy

Karen Murphy — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:59:55 +0000

This article brought up so many important aspects of the gifted student and the pursuit of perfection. I can totally understand now why some choose not to turn in their work as they feel it is not up to the standard they have set.
There are many good suggestions as to how to help students deal with those feelings.

By: Salvador DeLaGarza

Salvador DeLaGarza — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:32:20 +0000

This article has been an eye opener to how a perfectionist view and feel about themselves. I wasn’t aware there was a negative part of a perfectionist. I thought they were proud of their performance when comparing to others. Little that I knew, their biggest competitor is within themselves.

By: Shonda Allen

Shonda Allen — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:31:23 +0000

This article was very informative and gave good strategies for overcoming the perfectionist thought process.

By: Emma McNeil

Emma McNeil — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:28:50 +0000

This article hit the nail on the had with what I see students doing in my class as well as gives me ways to help them with overcoming their perfectionist ideology. Thank you

By: Karen Phillips

Karen Phillips — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:08:24 +0000

This article really hit home for me. Teaching GT students I have several that always want to make a 100 on their papers and feel if they do not that they are a failure. One part of the article that spoke about a GT student not wanting to do their work because they feel that they cannot make a 100 percent is just like a student I had this year in my class. If he did not think that he could be a perfectionist on the work he would have a melt down and not want to do any of it. He also had feelings of depression thinking that he was never good enough and when he did not make a perfect grade he would call himself dumb. The article gave some good strategies on using rubrics for the student to understand themselves what caused their grade to not be perfect. It helps them have something to go by to understand what it truly expected of them and how to achieve their grade of 100. I agree with article allowing the children to have hobbies or sports to participate in so they can learn to understand that everyone cannot always be a winner and it is ok to not always be perfect.