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...
Practice based Dropouts and their surroundings often feel desperate. They feel like they have an inadequate skillset to manage the complex learning situation (of the youngsters). In this talk, based on qualitative research in the Netherlands and personal contacts with (the network of) gifted students/dropouts, Akke...
Practice based Instead of the brain-drain that characterises the Western world, Hungary’s Stipendium Peregrinum Scholarship Programme is one of the first in the world to achieve a kind of reverse brain-drain: young Hungarians acquire knowledge abroad at the world’s most prestigious higher education institutions and use...
Balanced research and practice In this multimodal, performative talk, we will meet an existentially estranged, gifted young adult. We are going to discover through storytelling that this person will be invited by his mentor to start a dialogue with four representatives of nature. They will invite...
Balanced research and practice Which of our students have the potential to become tomorrow’s innovators, those creative problem solvers who will find unique solutions that enhance our lives? A talent development mindset believes that all of them may. This session presents strategies for identifying and nurturing...
Balanced research and practice Research on innovation reveals that there are seven cognitive and psychosocial aptitudes that undergird high achievement across disciplines. What if you could create instructional goals to teach the “aptitudes of innovators,” such as curiosity, creativity, insight, metacognition, or persistence, while still addressing...
Practice based Innovative research projects are especially suited for supporting talents by bringing them into close contact with state-of-the-art research and development in the area of MINT (Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, Technology). A stimulating project with clearly defined objective groups of gifted school students can raise...
Balanced research and practice Biography has been used in the curriculum for high ability students to teach the content domains of literacy and history and to foster personal growth and engagement. High ability youth who experience an intense identification with their talent area benefit from exploring...
Practice based In this workshop we will apply the actions according to which educators can prepare and run an international project that explores the moon as a living environment, in which the students build a biosphere. This workshop exposes the aspects that need to be considered...
Practice based Dropouts and their surroundings often feel desperate. They feel like they have an inadequate skill set to manage the complex learning situation of the youngsters. In this workshop, based on qualitative research in the Netherlands and personal contacts with (the network of) gifted students/dropouts,...