VS 8 is a general primary school with additional activities for gifted students – including: extracurricular courses and workshops for students and teachers.
To be awarded with the Vienna City Award for Schools Promoting Giftedness the following quality criteria must be fulfilled:
- School profile must include concepts of promoting giftedness
- Steering groups are implemented
- a minimum of 25% of teachers underwent training in promoting giftedness
- „revolving door models“ or „pull out programms“ are part of the school concept
- working with portfolios
- further individual support measures (studios, participation in competitions, …) are being applied
- information for and cooperation with parents
- specific further training
- documentation and evaluation
