Organizational instructions – Tuesdays, 2024

   Requirements for completing the course:

     * participation in lessons

     * completing assignments

     * completing seminar work

    Dates        Main topics (syllabus)                      Assignment
                                                             submission date

       27.2.     Basic concepts: Giftedness – talent. Types  March 11^th
                 of intelligences and relationship between
                 intelligence and giftedness.. Myths about   Introduction
                 giftedness. A difference between a gifted   Assignment:
                and clever pupil. Characteristics of Gifted
                                  Children                   Characteristics
                                                             of Gifted
                 Explanation of Assignment: Characteristics  Children
                             of Gifted Children

       12.3.     Discussion about characteristics of gifted  March 25^th
                 children as a resource for giftedness
                 diagnosis. Identification process –         Assignment 1:
                 nomination, identification, and diagnosis
                 of a gifted pupil. What methods are used    Giftedness
                 to identify gifted students. The role of    models –
                 teachers in identification process          motivation

                 Explanation of Assignment 2: Giftedness
                 models

       26.3.     Presentation of Giftedness models as a      April 8^th
                 resource for views of gifted pupils’
                 education. Motivation of gifted pupils –    Assignment 2:
                 motivation as a part of giftedness models,
                 gifted pupils’ motivation issue.            Current
                 Strategies of motivation of the gifted.     typology of
                 How to assess a gifted pupil.               gifted pupils

                 Explanation of Assignment 2: Current
                 typology of gifted pupils, work with case
                 studies

       9.4.      Current typology of gifted pupils –         April 15^th
                 presentation of Assignment 3.
                                                             Assignment 3:
                 Development of gifted pupils – latent
                 giftedness issue. Academic unachievement    Work with case
                 as a threat to restriction of the gifted    studies
                 pupils’ development.

                 Strategies suitable for development of
                 giftedness.

                 Explanation of Assignment 3:  Work with
                 case studies

       16.4.     Special methods of giftedness development   May 6^th
                 – acceleration and enrichment – their
    exceptional  advantages and disadvantages,               Seminar work:
       date      recommendations for their use, suggestions
                 of specific enrichment materials. Basic     Education of
                 ways of work with gifted pupils – a model   gifted pupils
                 of logical structure of educational         in your
                 process for a gifted pupil. Teaching the    country.
                 gifted and solution of their educational
                 needs. Materials creation for teaching
                 gifted pupils.

                 Explanation of seminar work: Education of
                 gifted pupils in your country.

       7.5.      Presentation of seminar work

                 Legal standards for education of the
                 gifted – a legal framework for education
                 of the gifted. Care about the gifted in
                 the Framework Education Programme.
                 Education adjustments for gifted pupils.