Sensitive Thrive

Here's a preview of some of the insights I've shared in my blog post about supporting at school. 🏫

Behaviours/results you might see in 👨‍🎓 HS children 👩‍🎓 who are over-stimulated or overwhelmed:

 Resistance to change
 Lack of social engagement
 Not completing work
 Reluctance to participate in class discussions or answer a teacher’s direct questions, or questions asked them in private
 Low grades, when their potential is obviously higher
 Some children might ‘act out’, while others will withdraw (this might depend upon personality and home environment/learnt behaviours)

Are you seeing these behaviours/results in students in your classes, or your own children? Did you know they could be a result of their temperament, mixed with over-stimulation and unhelpful conditions?

For ideas about what to do, and to learn a bit about why this happens, see my blog post, 'Supporting Highly Sensitive Children at School' - link in comments 👇

'Highly Sensitive – Responsive – children respond more intensely to all the input they receive – positive and negative. This doesn’t mean that teachers or school leaders need to always be on alert and making sure the student is only receiving positive input from their environment. That’s impossible and unneccessary. Highly Sensitive children can be very resilient and are naturally self-regulating. What they need from others – those who have some level of power over their environment – is the conditions which allow them to do this. They will take care of the rest themselves.'

~ From my recent blog post, 'Supporting Highly Sensitive children at school'.

I've shared some of the needs, possible behaviours (in response to unhelpful conditions), and solutions for teachers and school leaders.

I'm also working on an expanded version of this, which I'll offer as a guide once it's complete.

Do you have Highly Sensitive children in your classroom, or school? Is your child Highly Sensitive and experiences over-stimulation and other negative effects from their school environment?



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