Theories on gifted presented in video format.
Do you have a gifted student that says they are bored? Does your child hate school? What type of motivational strategies are you using? The key to igniting your gifted student with a life-long love of learning is incorporating 3 strategies: acceleration, compacting and enrichment. If you can relate to any of these things, then this training s for you.
Peter Csermely is a professor of the Semmelweis University (Budapest, Hungary) studying networks and talent support (www.linkgroup.hu). In 1995 he established a research network for more than 10,000 gifted high school students. Together with Leon Lederman Nobel Laureate in 2000 he started the Network of Youth Excellence (www.nyex.info) fostering talent support collaboration of 13 countries.
This video is a short portrait of the ECHA conference in Paris 2010.The major goal of ECHA is to act as a communications network to promote the exchange of information among people interested in high ability -- educators, researchers, psychologists, parents and the highly able themselves. As the ECHA network grows, provision for highly able people improves and these improvements are beneficial to all members of society.
