Identifying Gifted
We still have to secure agreement from Ron Vardi to apply and understand the process and practices of diagnozing the kids as Talented, Gifted or Not.
Presuming that we do, and we will, we will need a number of things including training for our staff in order to facilitate assessment and practice in accurately understanding the results.
Those things are important but we also need to plan for all of the following in order to be prepared to meet the need and the demand that is likely to follow:
- Identifying suitable mentors
- Training those mentors
- Identify psychologists to at least consult with
- Preparing presentation material and documentation for circulation
- Introduce a website and material for circulation
- educating the parents using digital resouces and whenever possible lectures and meetings
- Inviting responsible adults and children to the testing
- Preparing them for the outcomes and responsiblities that emerge,Talented, Gifted OR Not
- Introducing students into the project
- Prepare lesson content
- Prepare a suitable location / locations
- Collating the assessment information
- Collating and using feedback
The need for the above list is based on a reasonable assumption that there will be a growing need for this type of energy.
Two Balkan projects into this methodology are currently ongoing in the countries of Lithuania and Latvia.
In Lithuania the project has been running a little over two years and started with testing and fifty students. They now have three hundred and fifty students in an ongoing training program and a substantial number of
students waiting to join when the possibility arises.
Those projects are privately operated and operate after school hours and at wekends.
Ron Vardi in Israel who operate with 1000 students are one of 80 countrywide centers. All attendees pay extra to be in the projects.
There, testing is performed on every single year two school child.
If a child is found to be gifted the family are invited to have their child join the project. Most agree some do not for various reasons.
If they do join the child will not go to a center until their year three starts. At that point the children spends two and a half hourd after their standard school day at a center, one day a week.
When the child gets to fifth grade the child spends one full day a week at a center every week.
When the child is in the eighth class they attend the center every school day, all day.
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