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04 Aug Cartooning through Perfectionism
Drawing is a very complex and emotional task for many gifted kids. It is something that seems easy to do (if you're good at it) and simultaneously impossible to learn. Regardless of your interest and skill level in drawing, it is far too easy to...
28 Jul Movie ‘2e2: Teaching the Twice Exceptional’ followed by Q&A
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...
14 Jul Personalized Learning Plan to design inclusive activities for gifted children
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...
28 Jun Conversation tool for well-being: let’s talk about it!
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...
28 Jun Developing capacities of imagination
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...
28 Jun Goodness-of-fit and the Gifted: A Dialogue Toolbox
Balanced research and practice A mismatch between the internal developmental systems of gifted individuals and external social systems (school, age peers) gives rise an almost unavoidable lack of goodness-of-fit. Goodness-of-fit is a homeostatic mechanism that seeks an optimal match between individual and contextual characteristics. Not finding...
28 Jun Living on the edge; Learning, flourishing and contributing in all ages
Practice based In this symposium three professionals, who each have about 20 years of experience in working and interacting with the gifted from the age of young adults until the end of life, share their observations and insights. How do these gifted learn and develop in...
28 Jun mBET-teen – A Gifted and Talented Counseling Tool for Lower Secondary Education?
Balanced research and practice The multiple talent development tool mBET was developed to bring children, their teachers and their parents into a conversation about talent and its support. In most cases, the trained mBET users are teachers themselves, who take on the role of facilitators. The...
28 Jun Initiative to Support Gifted and Talented Pupils in Germany: Adaptive Formats of Diagnosis-Based Individual Promotion
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...