Seminars for professionals
Gifted Institute consists of a group of professionals with a broadly based knowledge of giftedness, twice-exceptionality, the inner lives of the gifted, test interpretation, overexcitabilities and how gifted children and youth should be approached and accommodated in their lives, including in institutions, schools, and educational establishments.
The institute regularly hosts seminars for both private individuals and professionals. We offer seminars conducted by the institute's own skilled staff as well as seminars where we have invited one of our collaborators to speak. Most of our seminars take place online to allow as many people as possible to participate.
Additionally, we offer seminars to professionals, schools, municipalities, and other interested parties who interact with gifted children, youth, and adults.
Seminars can stand alone, but often it can be meaningful for them to be part of a collaboration where the seminar itself is followed up by workshops or a tailored program on developing the institution, organization, school staff, or educational establishment.
The topics for the seminars can be adapted according to needs and wishes. Below are examples of some of the seminars that can be booked with Gifted Institute.
If you would like to learn more about booking seminars at Gifted Institute, you can send us an email at [email protected]. Publicly accessible seminars are announced here on the website and via our newsletter.
On the interviews and seminars page, you will find a selection of interviews and online seminars arranged by Gifted Institute.
If you have a good idea for a topic or an interesting person, please send your suggestion to [email protected], and we will see if it can be arranged.
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At present, you can view seminars featuring:
Linda Silverman "about the dobbeltexceptionelle"
Danae Deligeorge "about socio-emotionel læring"
Marion van de Coolwijk "about World Game"
Markus Hunt "about project-based learning"
Tina Harlow "about assessment of learning preferences"
Gifted Institute continuously develops new and exciting events and offerings aimed at gifted children, adolescents, and adults. If you would like to stay updated on the latest news from the institute, you can subscribe to our newsletter. We send out newsletters approximately once a month, and you can sign up here:
THE SIX TYPES OF GIFTED CHILDREN
Gain deeper insight into the six types of gifted children in this seminar, where we explore both how they are identified and how they can be included in the classroom. Gifted children and youth are at least as likely to experience poor well-being as other children. The path out of their distress often involves providing them with challenges that match their giftedness, which presupposes that they have been identified as gifted. Unfortunately, not all gifted individuals are identified. Often, it is those who remain unidentified who experience the greatest distress. Giftedness can be categorized into: Types of giftedness, academic interests and talents, or emotional characteristics.
IDENTIFICATION OF TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
We refer to gifted individuals who simultaneously have a general or specific learning difficulty as twice-exceptional. In this seminar, we look at how twice-exceptional children and youth are identified in the classroom, and how they can be supported within the school setting. For these children, there is a risk that their giftedness compensates for their difficulty, or that difficulties mask their giftedness. They therefore generally appear average and are not recognized for either their giftedness or their difficulty. Gifted individuals can be dyslexic to the same degree as other children. They can have ADHD, autism, or similar diagnoses to the same extent as other children, and they suffer from emotional challenges just like other children.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS - PARTISAN ARGUMENT OR TRUTH WITNESS?
Learn more about the WISC test and why it is such an important tool in relation to giftedness. The seminar focuses on how intelligence tests are structured, and the WISC test is examined in detail. We look at the interpretation of WISC and what indications of giftedness we can derive from different test profiles. The WISC test is used in virtually all assessments of children and youth. The test is well-suited to provide a solid insight into and understanding of the child's or youth's cognitive abilities. There are many different opinions on intelligence tests: For example, there is disagreement about whether stress affects or does not affect the result, and whether one can say anything about giftedness at the subtest level.