Balanced research and practice How does your brain work? Thomas Ropelewski’s 2e2: Teaching the Twice Exceptional, the sequel to his award-winning 2e: Twice Exceptional, follows the teachers of Bridges Academy, a school in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to educating highly gifted students with learning...
Balanced research and practice 2e: Twice Exceptional examines the concept of “twice exceptionality” – gifted or highly gifted children with learning disabilities and/or differences – from the perspectives of the students themselves, as well as their parents and educators. These students have vexed their parents and are often...
Balanced research and practice The field of Gifted Education is a universe that is still little known in Italy despite in many Countries of the European Community, as well as in the so-called emerging countries, the issues of giftedness and talent development are widely known and...
Scientific Our study investigated socialization in gifted children, after the covid-19 pandemic, to understand how can affect school and social inclusion. If before the pandemic the socialization of gifted children was compromised mainly due to their asynchronous development (Columbus group, 1991; Cross, 2015;), during the pandemic...
Balanced research and practice According to Kettler and Taliaferro (2022) personalized learning is a pedagogical approach that focuses on pupils' needs, interests, and talents. The Personalized Learning Plan (PLP) for gifted children is an educational tool that favors the application of personalized teaching. In our study we...
Balanced research and practice In the Netherlands, there are many regional and national collaborative alliances aimed at meeting the educational needs of gifted students. Despite this, a relatively large percentage of school dropouts are gifted. Schools for the gifted and talented have requested a practical tool...
Balanced research and practice Using the framework established by Lincoln Center Institute (New York) for Aesthetic Education, this workshop will present an interactive demonstration of a process that develops capacities of imagination such as deep noticing, questioning, and making connections to ideas leading to understanding and...
Balanced research and practice Differentiating is a complex teacher ability and task. Recent research of the Dutch Inspectorate of Eduction shows that differentiation during math classes exists, but is insufficient in many aspects concerning the needs of math talent. Lack of time and knowledge how to...
Practice based Many autistic, gifted children drop out of education because their autism is not recognized as such or because their environment does not make appropriate adjustments. They cannot fully use their potential and talents and often experience psychological difficulties.Correct identification of these children is the...
Balanced research and practice The federal and state initiative "Leistung macht Schule" (LemaS) is being implemented in 2018 to support especially high-performing and potentially highly capable students in Germany. 18 universities and 300 schools in all 16 federal states work together on concepts for gifted education...