Slim! Educatief is a private teacher trainer institute specialized in Gifted Education. Drs. Eleonoor van Gerven is owner and director of the institute. She wrote over 150 articles on educating gifted students in primary schools. She wrote several books on educating the gifted. She also developed a digital teacher toolkit with mostly pedagogical tools and instruments to support teachers to educate gifted students.

Slim! Educatief provides different kinds of teacher trainings at post graduate level.  All trainings are based on the ´Competence Matrix Specialist Begaafdheid´, in which basic teacher skills are combined met more specialistic skills in order to become a teacher specialized in educating the gifted.

Every year over 300 teachers are graduating after following on of our trainings.

• Specialist Begaafdheid SE/ZOO®:  a one year training of teachers in Primary Education (500 hours of study, 111,5 contact hours). This training is formally accredited by the Dutch Organization for Post-Graduate Education.
• Basic teacher training Educating the Gifted (age group 6-12 year olds) (45 hours of study, 18 contact hours).
• Basic teacher training Educating the Gifted (age group 4-6 year olds) (45 hours of study, 18 contact hours).
• In depth training ‘How to organize successful enrichment programs’ (36 hours of study, 18 contact hours).
• In depth training Solution Focused Guidance of Gifted Students (45 hours of study, 18 contact hours).
• In depth training Rti for Gifted students (45 hours of study, 18 contact hours).

Every year over 50 schools ask us to do an in-service workshop on one of the topics

• Rti for Gifted Students (the basic’s)
• Recognizing gifted students
• Underachieving
• Developing Learning Strategies
• Learning styles
• Acceleration
• Curriculum compacting
• Enrichment programs
• Twice exceptional students
• Coaching of processes when school policy on educating the gifted is formed.