Members of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children are invited to be part of the “International Week of Giftedness 2012” during August and the “International Year of Giftedness and Creativity 2013” which will be held in connection with the World Conference in New Zealand. The first “International Day
The deadline for submitting presentations from the World Conference in Prague has been extended to the end of June 2012. Papers are needed to put together the proceedings from the Conference. There were more than 330 sessions and talks at the World Conference. If you participated in one of those
The 13th International European Council for High Ability (ECHA) Conference will take place in Münster, Germany in combination with the 4th Münsterschen Bildungskongress. The International Center for the Study of Giftedness (ICBF) is hosting the event. The conference will focus on “Giftedness Across the Lifespan” and include more than 100
The event at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, July 14-18, 2012, is organized by the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance, under the Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG), a non-profit organization for the development and education of gifted and talented children. The main theme is
The IX Ibero-American Congress will take place October 18-19, 2012, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The motto of the Congress is, “Building a future inclusive and innovative for the attention of gifted and talented children in the common school, seeking to achieve a level of equality and equity in education.” The
The latest edition of the World Gifted newsletter is now available. Due to the technical issues involved with the new website redesign we are posting it here for your perusal. Click here to access the newsletter. Members and non-members can view the latest newsletter. If you find it useful please
The WCGTC website is being redesigned. The new site will be much more user friendly and is scheduled to be ready by the end of 2011. The new website design is based on input from numerous WCGTC members- including many of those who attended the World Conference in Prague. Connie
More than 450 people interested in advancing gifted education participated in the 19th Biennial World Conference in Prague, Czech Republic August 8-12. Educators, parents and students from 57 countries from around the world attended the opportunity in Eastern Europe to share the latest scholarship and information on gifted education. The
WCGTC members have voted to ratify the recently revised bylaws for our organization. The bylaws provide guidance and structure for the World Council. In May the bylaws committee presented an updated document for final review with a comments period and members voted online to ratify the new document. Thank you
We are pleased to announce the Executive Committee election results. Dr. Ümit Davaslıgil from Turkey and Dr. Ken McCluskey from Canada will be joining the Executive Committee at the conclusion of the 2011 World Conference.
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