World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

WCGTC Webinar - Exploring Overexcitabilities and Creativity in Educational Settings - May 8, 2024
2024-05-08 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
March 21 @ 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Times are in Central European Time) In this webinar, participants will first focus on opportunities to include “The Top 20 Principles from Psychology for Pre-K-12 Creative, Talented and Gifted Students Teaching and Learning” in continuous professionalization for teachers. The webinar will then transition to a small panel conversation focused on the similarities and differences in continuous professional development globally led by three teacher educators from around the world. We will then discuss how these 20 principles can be reflected in various teacher education programs/courses and how these newly trained educators can implement this knowledge to positively affect the gifted education of their identified students.

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Dr. Christine Deitz

Dr. Christine Deitz is the Associate Director for the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is a nationally recognized educator in gifted, creative, and talented education. During her 26 years of public school service, she was a College Board faculty consultant in social studies. Christine holds two National Board Teacher certifications and is also the coordinator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Candidate Support Site at UA Little Rock. A recipient of multiple national educator and curriculum awards, Dr. Deitz was recognized as Doctoral Student of the Year and received the A. Harry Passow Classroom Teacher Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). She is the author of numerous articles on gifted education and is the immediate-past president of the state’s advocacy association, Arkansans for Gifted and Talented Education. She currently serves on NAGC’s Board of Directors as State Representative.

Mrs. Annemieke Weterings-Helmons

Mrs. Annemieke Weterings-Helmons M.EP is a part-time associate professor at Fontys University in the department of teacher education and educational needs. She is specialized in math education and dyscalculia, and gifted education. From 2007-2009 she had the shared responsibility for the development and implementation of the first Dutch Master Educational Needs in Gifted Education at Fontys University. At Fontys University, Mrs. Weterings-Helmons is currently responsible for their teacher education courses on gifted education. She is a co-developer and lecturer at Slim! Educatief’s teacher education course Specialist in Educating Twice Exceptional Learners.

Dr. Erkki Lassila

Erkki Lassila, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment at Kobe University, where he chairs Teacher Education Research. Originally from Finland (University of Oulu), he has been a research student at Hokkaido University (2013–2016) and a visiting researcher at Ehime University (2020–2021). His research focuses on teachers’ work as an relational and emotional practice in different sociocultural contexts, comparative perspectives in education and gifted education as a challenge to mainstream education, and teacher thinking. Dr. Lassila’s current project focuses on identifying culturally appropriate theoretical and practical models for educating Japanese teachers about Gifted Education. He is a country delegate of Japan for the Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG).

Dr. Rena Subotnik

Rena F. Subotnik, PhD, serves as Research Associate at the Academic Talent Development Program, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. From 2001 until June 2023, she was Senior Director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education at the American Psychological Association. Under her leadership, one of the Center’s missions was to generate public awareness, advocacy, clinical applications, and cutting-edge research ideas that enhance the achievement and performance of children and adolescents with gifts and talents in all domains. Dr. Subotnik is co-author, with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, and Frank Worrell, of the Megamodel, appearing in publications such as Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and the Annual Review of Psychology, and co-editor with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Frank Worrell of The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential Into Domain-Specific Talent. Rena has been awarded grants from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Camille and Henri Dreyfus Foundation, McDonnell Foundation, the American Psychological Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education to support her projects.

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