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European best practices to support children with high potential and to access training for gifted children with disabilities - Gifted (for) you
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Packing about the equal opportunities given to high potential children – who are children with special educational needs and high social risk, a scientific study carried out in Great Britain in 2010 (in which took part Robert Plomin, a professor of behavioral genetics at King’s College, London, and one of the experts involved in the present project), reports that only 3% of the high potential children do succeed in life according to social norms.
Given these problems and needs identified, the project is to increase the effectiveness of social and educational integration of children with high potential, especially those with special educational needs and disabilities, in order to fully capitalize their resources through a program of evaluation and specialized training, including the use of information technology.
Project activities:
Monitoring and evaluation of project performance will be held considering the following tracking indicators: number of beneficiaries for target activities, number of promotional events, number of informative / promotional forms completed, number of items in online promotion sites and specialized sites and social networks.
In the first year of the project implementation, the numerous study and work visits will settle the development of the modules and their correlation with the software information/applications for tablets and smartphones.
In the second year, the constituted work teams will negociate, via the members appointed to keep in touch with the IT company, with the educational software development company, on the subject of gadgets and the e-learning platform .
The third year is the year of promotion campaigns at national level, with the involvement of all project partners and the effective implementation of the online center. Following the promotion campaigns in the 9 towns in Romania, the online center will be operational and international conference - Gifted education for all – breaking prejudices, pushing boundaries
Activities during ppe toata perioada proiectului will be adapted to provide all participants the opportunity to share their experience: team work, individual presentation, reflection group, fair methods, intercultural evening.
O1: Develop and implement curriculum "gifted" children with high potential, especially for those with special educational needs and disabilities
O2: Development of educational software for children with hearing, blind, asperger who obtained values after testing that them include in children "gifted"
O3: Increasing awareness among the public, especially among parents and education professionals regarding the pedagogy "gifted" to increase the chances of access to the proposed program of children in the target group
O4: Implementation of eLearning pilot center to increase usage of technology in special educational needs issues and leverages the high potential of children to be screened through this instrument.
Target group you are address is: direct target group and indirect target group.
Direct target group:
• 30 Romanian volunteers
• 1 sign language interpreter
• experts’ team for disabilities:
- 2 specialist of School for deaf children of Plovdiv: 1 specialist in surdopedagogy and 1 specialist of deaf’s pedagogy;
- 1 specialist of hearing deficiencies
- therapists, kinetotherapists, psychological therapy for skilled children with impairments (hearing, vision, autism, Asperger)
• expert's team for gifted education:
- 4 specialits of University of Plovdiv( PU): educational sciences, special pedagogy and clinical psychology
- 1 specialist in gifted education from Croatia
- 2 specialists in gifted education from Romania
- 1 specialists in vocational counseling
- 2 specialists in psychological evaluation
- 1 specailisti in online communication
- 1 specialists in methodology of the training cycle
- 1 specialist in clinical psychologist
- 1 specialist in educational evaluation
- 1 coach specialist
- 1 specialist in ESPERE method
• 1,600 tested children
• 96 selected children
• 20 students tested in the pilot stage, from the asperger group
• 20 students tested in the pilot stage, from the hearing-impaired
• 10 students tested in the pilot stage, from the visually-impaired
• 20 students tested in the pilot stage, from those without impairments
Indirect target group:
• mass-media
• direct competitors
• close community of children, teachers and parents beneficiaries of the project
• decision-makers attending: school inspectorates, APL representatives, NGOs, representatives of city councils and local/county councils, parents’ councils