Procrastination can be good!
Thursday, 22 January 2009 11:57
As the new school year approaches, I've been thinking a lot abut procrastination, and not only because I have yet to write an integrated science/HSIE unit. The thing is, and I'm sure it is true for your gifted children/students too, while I haven't been actually sitting in my study writing it, (yet) I HAVE been thinking about it constantly. I've refined my ideas, clipped newspaper articles, searched the web, made notes and thought of a name for the unit (while walking the dogs this morning!).
Now my theory is that this form of "active" procrastination will actually result in a better end product than if I'd sat down and forced myself to write it at a set time two weeks ago. I remember reading somewhere that gifted students who appear to be doing nothing much are actually "percolating" ideas in part of their very busy minds, and this article has some good points relating to my theory. Of course, some students are paralysed by a fear of failure, unmotivated by the task or just spending too much time on facebook, but if your child leaves a project till the last minute but still does a good job of it, maybe they are an "active procrastinator" like me!
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