OUR ACTIVITIES
The Training Courses for the Promotion of Potential and Talent Development of all students, and in particular of gifted, gifted underachiever and twice exceptional students, allows to:
- Learn about the history of Gifted and Talented Education and Twice Exceptionality
- Recognize the illustrious exponents, the theories and the models
- Comparing Different Schools of Thought
- Identify the characteristics and educational needs of gifted and talented students
- Implementing the components of the SEM
- Compact and differentiate the curriculum to promote the personalization of learning
- Use the Renzulli Learning System to promote educational experiences based on student's academic strengths, interests, learning styles, and expressive preferences.
- Incorporating real-world problem-solving strategies into teaching practices
- Encourage and promote student's creativity and critical thinking
- Addressing the educational, social, and emotional needs of twice exceptional students
- Reversing the underachievement process and preventing school dropout.
Training Courses
The training courses offer an overview of the Gifted and Talented Education, Twice Exceptionality, and Gifted Undearachievement models developed over the last fifty years in America, deepening knowledge of the approach to developing talent and individual potential through the use of numerous strategies, including acceleration, enrichment, curriculum compacting, differentiation, and dual differentiation. The training program allows educators to acquire in-depth knowledge of the SEM Model: an inclusive teaching model for talent development to infuse enrichment activities in the regular curriculum, taking into account the student's strengths and interests, thus developing 21st-century skills.
Contents
The training is divided into two modules with lectures and an interactive, hands-on activities, with the option of teacher support and monitoring in the classroom. The courses allow teachers to discover and learn how to use SEM tools in the classroom. In the laboratory-based modules, teachers have the opportunity to use the SEM tools and strategies, simulating activities designed by an Enrichment Team, completing Assessment Forms and Scales for an initial assessment of students' potentials.
SEM Italy provides guidance to schools in the SEM implementation process .
Instruments
Teachers are introduced to the Renzulli Learning System to create an Electronic Profile to identify students' strengths, interests, learning styles, and expression styles, facilitating the personalization of learning (www.renzullilearning.com). Teachers can also take the Cebeci Creative Potential Test, which assesses students' creativity by measuring the four main creative dimensions: Fluency, Originality, Elaboration, and Flexibility. With a view to personalizing and differentiating learning experiences, teachers learn how to compact the curriculum, eliminating previously learned content and replacing it with more advanced activities, thus preventing boredom and underachievement.
The Training Courses are taught by Dr. Lara Milan, Ph.D.,
Specialist in Gifted and Talented Education,
2e Specialist and
SEM Specialist,
titles earned at the University of Connecticut, the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity and the University of California, Irvine, (USA). The SEM Model was implemented for the first time in the Italian Public School by Dr. Milan during her PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Pavia (Italy).
To request information about training course programs and tutoring services at schools, write to: info@semitaly.com