Contributions
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Encouraging critical thinking in gifted children: a practical introduction to the Thinking BubblesPaper
Presenter(s): Frum van EgmondDuring this session, Frum van Egmond will introduce the Thinking Bubbles: a set of questions that cover all aspects of inquiry learning. The Thinking Bubbles are an important element of the Noordwijk Method, a curriculum that she has developed for primary and secondary schools in the Netherlands. Frum van Egmond … More -
Prispevek obravnava izsledke empirične raziskave, ki smo jo izvedli v 4. letniku gimnazije. Zanimalo nas je (1) razvijanje kritičnega sporazumevanja in njegove značilne sestavine, ki so predvidene po učnem načrtu (v nadaljevanju: UN) za pouk slovenščine, ter (2) razvijanje zmožnosti kritičnega sporazumevanja v temeljnih učnih gradivih. Predvidevali smo namreč, da … More
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Otroci iz vrtcev pridejo v šolo z različno razvitimi sposobnostmi in različnim predznanjem. Učitelji 1. razredov smo postavljeni pred izziv, kako njihovo znanje nadgraditi, poglobiti ter razvijati že obstoječe sposobnosti. Pomembno je, da učitelji učencem ponudimo kakovostno učno okolje, v katerem lahko pridobivajo toliko znanja in izkušenj, kot zmorejo oz. … More
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Facilitating Gifted and Twice Exceptional Student Achievement: Supporting Executive Function Skill Challenges During Covid-19Paper
Presenter(s): Melissa Malen , Maruška Željeznov SenićarDuring the pandemic stress and uncertainty felt by students, teachers and parents have a negative effect on everyone’s executive function skills. During Covid-19, gifted and twice exceptional students have difficulty with directions, getting started on work, persisting to complete work and with general organizing, planning, prioritizing and meeting deadlines. Academic … More -
From gifted students' exploratory zeal to preventive workshops on sexual inviolability for school peersPaper
Presenter(s): Marina VidmarInspired by the 2017 notorious Hollywood sexual harassment scandal two gifted students from our school (Jazbec and Virant, 2019) decided to make a research project on sexual harassment of women at workplace and subsequently organize psychoeducational workshops for their school peers to raise awareness of this sensitive issue. With their … More -
From personal constructs toward construction of tolls for identifying potential giftedness and creativityPaper
Presenter(s): Lada MarinkovicThe paper will present the results of a project whose goal was to respond to the missing needs of practitioners in their efforts to recognize and identify the potentials of gifted children as well as the potential for creativity at an early preschool age. As a theoretical and methodological framework, … More -
Vzdržljivost je zelo pomembna veščina oziroma zmožnost posameznika v današnjem svetu. Izkazuje se lahko v odnosih, pri opravljanju nalog, branju, igranju s prijatelji ali kot vzdržljivost v smislu fizične pripravljenosti in gibalne dejavnosti. Vzdržljivost posameznika, v tem primeru učenca, vpliva na kakovost njegovega življenja, saj ob dobri vzdržljivosti lažje dosega … More
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This keynote sheds light on the importance of gifted education in the 21st century. In addition, it provides an overview of a new approach; and offers a scientific model for skillful teaching. It is an attempt to answer a number of questions, including: What is productive thinking? How to employ … More
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Although perfectionism tendencies can happen to everybody, it has been proven by research that the gifted, due to their complex inner functionning and atypical development, are, more than the others, prone to it. This workshop provides an overview of two important endogenous (innate) characteristics, of the gifted: perfectionism and intensity. … More
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Whenever a child takes its first step on his or her own, a new phase in development begins. At this stage children are now free to run around , it is a time for active exploration of their environment. Language development takes major leaps which leads to learning the names … More
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The issue of students' reception anxiety, as one of the anxieties in language skills, has been extensively researched, but it is still open due to significant discrepancies in the researchers' findings. A number of questions are open, such as: whether reception anxiety in a foreign language is caused by problems … More
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Greek teachers’ beliefs as correlated with students’ self-efficacy during a nomination procedurePaper
Presenter(s): Irina Mrvoljak Theodoropoulou , Dr. Vasiliki Nikolopoulou , Aikaterini GariThis research is an effort to explore how students’ self-efficacy is correlated with teachers’ beliefs about their potential and abilities, when a nomination procedure is conducted. With an emphasis to students’ high potential and the degree that teachers nominate it, self-efficacy of a group of nominated students was compared with … More