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Supporting individual resourcefulness through development and offer of community-based gifted education resources

The aim of this study is to present in the poster the preliminary findings from the city-wide project entitled Center of excellence in Osijek (CIO), a Saturday enrichment programme for the gifted students aged 10 to 15. The Center of excellence in Osijek is a new city-financed and for the students free of charge educational programme for the gifted students interested in arts in sciences that commenced in school year 2017/18. The programme lasted for 12 three-hour workshops, throughout the school year, prepared and led by the elementary school teachers, in which the students participated in exploratory artistic or scientific activities, and individual projects. In cooperation with the school psychologists from the city elementary schools, a group of 485 students of high intellectual ability applied to participate in CIO. The programme was held at 8 venues throughout the city, within schools, making it easily accessible ; 4 offered the arts (creative writing, drama, and web-journalism workshop), a 4 for the sciences (biology and chemistry, mathematics and physics, and computer science and technical modeling). The workshops were held following an alternative schedule every other Saturday, in order to allow the interested students to participate in both domains every Saturday. With a special emphasis placed on the importance of the organized support of individual resourcefulness through development and offer of community-based gifted education resources, such as this programme, the preliminary findings were interpreted in relation to the contemporary educational perspectives on giftedness and gifted education.

gifted education ; enrichment ; children's creative behavior ; excellence

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