ABOUT THE PROJECT

European countries have not developed a uniform system to support gifted students. This varies from country to country being often neglected, invisible and left to be taken care of by individual teachers.

Instruction in public mixed classes often proves discriminatory for the gifted students who most often need challenges and be offered advanced content and complex learning methods to challenge their intellectual curiosity and exceptional problem-solving abilities across a broad range of disciplines.

SCOPE

The project‘s scope is to ensure fair education alternative learning opportunities for all gifted high school students in 6 European schools, for a period of 2 years by using a highly participatory project centred approach.

TARGET GROUP

The target group is formed of highly intellectual 14-19 year old high school students from 6 European countries interested in self-development, and self-promotion.

OBJECTIVES

The main objectives are:

1)to increase the number of gifted students who would like to enter competitions by 5% in 2020 as a result of creating a challenging and intellectually demanding environment for gifted students in 5 domains: Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry and languages;

2)to develop gifted students’ professional, personal or social skills by using inquiry based learning and ICT tools to support and stimulate the creative potential in and outside the 6 schools, by broadening their horizon with 5 experiential opportunities in special learning and teaching conditions not available in a single institution;

3)To offer teachers opportunities to exchange views, new curricula approaches and innovative

teaching methods and to create 1 guide presenting methods of instruction for gifted students that will lead to students' integration and commitment in and outside school, ensuring success.

ACTIVITIES

Main activities:

1. One short-term joint staff training event-Croatia(5 teachers/country)

2. Five short-term exchanges of groups of pupils-all the other countries ( 5 students+2 teachers per country): Language lab(Portugal), Focus on Maths -Ready for challenges?(Cyprus), “Curious minds”-biology(Bulgaria), -"Crazy experiments" for Chemistry and Physics(Italy), Talent show-cross curricular(Romania).

3. Local activities( questionnaires regarding students learning style, language preparation, teaching guide creation, developing local projects on the specific subjects, visits to universities/NGO-s, online collaboration for the cross-curricular projects, dissemination activities, etc.)

RESULTS

Expected results

- at least 1 web magazine for students to present their projects, 6 school project fairs, 1 teaching guide and 5 virtual resource rooms for each domain, created using ICT tools.

-in depth academic exploration skills,

-real life/practical result oriented perspective on teaching,

-foreign language and communication practice,

-critical thinking skills development,

-improved understanding of the connection among different school subjects,

-international perspective on working with gifted students and its limitations.