Meeting of GATE project partners in Israel. Trends and strategies for the education of gifted children were discussed.
On the 4-5th of January, 2023, the 2nd transnational GATE project' partners meeting was organized.
The partners discussed the project status, finalisation of the 1st deliverable - the Methodological Material - which is the theoretical background for teachers to recognize gifted pupils, as well to understand their education, to know more about skills needed to be gifted kids teacher, and agreed to carry out a review of the prepared parts, which will be used to refine the material, which will then be translated into the national languages of the partners - Lithuanian, Latvian and Hebrew. The main review will be made by prof. Yehuda Hamovitz, who is experienced teachers trainer when we talk about gifted pupils education.
The partners also discussed the development of the second deliverable - GATE training programme - which is made using the experience and steps developed during the 1st Training event and the 2nd Training event which will be organized in March, 2023. Partners shared ideas and agreed on a work plan for the programme development.
The partners also discussed the development of the second deliverable - GATE training programme - which is made using the experience and steps developed during the 1st Training event and the 2nd Training event which will be organized in March, 2023. Partners shared ideas and agreed on a work plan for the programme development.
We also tackled topics such as dissemination, evaluation, impact on target groups.
The meeting was useful for the development of the project partnership and for the decision-making process, which is important for the further implementation of the project tasks.
During this meeting partnership had unique possibility to visit Israel Parliament and to have a discussion with parliament members about gifted kids education in Israel, strategical improtance of it, also to present to the members GATE project and ideas we work on, as well results we will achieve all together, learning from Israel experience. Another unique experience was to visit Karari Realic gymnasium, where they have gifted kids classrooms and to have couple of hours discussion with gifted kids' teachers and gifted 7-8 grade pupils.
Time in Israel went very productive: intelligent people met, who shared their insights, experience, improved knowledge in gifted kids teaching, discuss GATE project which was presented widely, starting from Parliament of Israel (The Knesset), Municipality of Rishon LeZion, Reali Gymnasium and extending ideas during the partners meeting in Ron Vardi gifted kids centre.
