Impostor Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that causes people to doubt their accomplishments and fear being “discovered” as a fraud. It is very common within the gifted population and has seriously negative impacts. This session will explore the maintaining factors of this Syndrome and outline...
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 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 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...
Balanced research and practice High ability is still mainly connotated with academic domains and research based data are numerous in this field. But when it comes to vocational trainings or professional talents research is comparatively sparse. ...
Balanced research and practice Twice-exceptional students are students who are talented on the one hand, with learning, developmental, or behavioral difficulties on the other. Identifying these students and their educational needs can be difficult due to the large individual differences between and within these students. The...
Balanced research and practice Background: School closures and online instruction were implemented in the spring of 2020 as preventative measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries across the world. In the United States and abroad, educators faced the unprecedented challenge of supporting...
Balanced research and practice SchuMaS is a joint project that provides research-based and practice-oriented support for 200 schools serving disadvantaged communities in all German states. One of the main focuses of the SchuMaS topic cluster School Development and Leadership is on developing and testing, in partnership...
Practice based During and after the Covid-19 pandemic there was a growing demand for online courses and topics about mental health and subjective wellbeing in the field of education. Recognizing this need, a series of e-learning courses was developed and offered to teachers and students in...