Richard Olenchak provides some suggestions in his book, They Say My Child Is Gifted. Now What? A few of these plus other suggestions from Practical Tips for Parents by Carolyn Coil are shared below.
* Parents and teachers should work together to convey positive expectations for students to help them value learning.
* There should be close and positive parent and teacher communication. Keep the teacher informed of any problems, illness or trauma that might affect your child's learning and behavior at school.
* Help your child develop effective organization, time management and study skills.
* Help your child develop a consistent time and place for home study (each day there should be some time spent practicing skills learned in school such as assigned homework or for practice in math and reading skills or special talents.)
* Help your child learn to persevere with routine tasks. Memorizing the times tables or struggling with spelling, capitalization and punctuation rules may not be fun, but these are necessary skills for students to be academically successful.
* Help your child learn to deal with the frustration of mistakes and setbacks. Learning to persevere, to regroup, to try alternate solutions and to learn from mistakes are valuable life skills.
* Here's a "Handy Reminder" from the book Time Management: So What? So Help Me!
1. Listen
2. Be Neat
3. Pay Attention
4. Finish Work
5. Check Work: name, neat, correct
6. Be Ready: supplies, sleep, good breakfast
7. Try: no matter how hard or easy, try your hardest.
8. Ask Questions: if you don't understand, ask!

* Don't make homework into an occasion for conflict. Have a set time for study (whether assigned homework or time to read or practice special talents), and stick to that rule.
* Avoid the "Parent to the Rescue" syndrome. Decide on a policy of how often you will bring a forgotten item to school or how often you will drive back to school to get something. A general rule of thumb is fewer times as the older your child gets.
* Don't do for your child what he/she should be doing for themselves. Remember, homework is to help your child internalize and make the practiced skill his/her own. If you do it, it's your learning, not theirs. There's a delicate balance between too much parental assistance and not enough.
* If your child gets frustrated during homework, help him learn to take breaks and to break down the assignment into smaller chunks. But, breaks should be for set times so they don't last forever.
* Take advantage of museums, vacations, libraries, special television shows, special events, family expertise, cultural events, etc. to help your child make connections with their school projects and assignments.
* If you think your child is spending too much time on homework, talk with the classroom teacher to find out why your child is having this homework.

* Help your child become a better time manager. Below are some suggestions for your child from the book, Time Management: So What, So Help Me!
1. Plan: know what you need to do for school, for after-school activities and for home chores. Write it down, keep track of your time, and think about finishing --keep your goals in mind. If your plan doesn't work, think of ways you can adapt your plan.
2. Schedule: know what things you need to do each day. Use a calendar, a To Do list, or an agenda. Each day write down what you need to do for the next day, refer to your list, and check off items as you complete them.
3. Prioritize: practice the ABC's of time management. A's are the most important to complete, and C's are not very important. Make time to do the A's first.
4. Organize: keep everything you need for your homework, projects, etc. in the same place, so that you know where they are and don't waste time looking for them.
5. Practice: time management won't work unless you work at it, so practice, practice, practice....
* Carolyn Coil offers some suggestions for helping your child develop good study skills in Practical Tips for Parents.
1. You and your child create a plan for organizing a home study environment, complete with all the necessary materials for studying and creating.
2. Make a checklist of materials needed at school and at home. Post it in visible places such as the bathroom and car.
3. Work on improving memory by playing memory games such as "Concentration" and by helping your child come up with memorization techniques.
4. Help your child come up with study techniques, such as flash cards, mindmaps, teaching songs and movements, etc.

Below are some hints for good classroom time management from the book, Time Management: So What? So Help Me!
1. Be ready for classes: sharpened pencil, paper, books, assignments, etc.
2. Listen: really pay attention to instructions so you don't waste time asking questions when you could be working.
3. Organize: have your day's assignments and homework in your agenda, calendar or To Do list.
4. Keep your desk organized so you don't waste time looking through a messy desk or throw away something you need.
5. Begin work promptly!
6. Work hard to ignore distractions (your friends, noises, last night's T.V.show, etc.)
7. Be persistent -- stay on task until you're finished.
8. Check assignments BEFORE turning them in to make sure you followed the criteria, you put your name and heading, you checked spelling, you completed all the questions, etc.

Perfectionism, over-analysis of questions, and creative thinking, are just a few reasons gifted students may not do well on tests. Sandra Berger, an information specialist at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Gifted Education offers some suggestions in Understanding Our Gifted newlsetter.
1. Time Strategies: it's important to work efficiently with the time you have. Answer the items you know, and save the difficult ones for last.
2. Error Avoidance Strategies: pay careful attention to directions. If you can, highlight important phrases, key words, etc. Mark your answers carefully, and recheck answers. Especially look for words such as, "never", "always", and "all" in the test directions and answers.
3. Guessing Strategies: make effective use of your intuition and your reasonable guesses, especially if you are penalized for leaving blanks. Imagine the answer before looking at multiple choices.
4. Deductive Reasoning: eliminate options known to be wrong. Use content (highlighting helps here) information from the test question to come to a reasonable conclusion.