| Barcelona 2001 MOVES FORWARD, Pre-Conference and Scientific Program |
The five-day conference will feature an academic as well as a practically oriented program of keynote addresses, symposia, individual presentations, panel of New Technologies applied to Education and poster sessions. Pre-Conference and Scientific Program.
PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS:
- "Creativity: assessing, challenging, and nurturing"
"Creatividad: evaluar, desafiar y educar"
Klaus Urban, Germany
- "The gifted brain: A user's guide to teaching"
"El cerebro superdotado: guía del usuario de la enseñanza"
Barbara Clark, USA
- "DISCOVER problem solving with a global perspective"
"DISCOVER: resolución de problemas con una perspectiva global"
June Maker, USA
- "Gifted and talented pupils in Inner City Schools"
"Atención a los alumnos superdotados y con talento en la enseñanza pública"
Deborah Eyre, UK
- "Giftedness and associated disorders"
"Superdotación y Trastornos Asociados"
Yolanda Benito, Spain
- "Possibilities for Learning: Letting Students Differentiate Learning Experiences"
"Posibilidades de aprendizaje: dejar que los estudiantes diferencien experiencias de aprendizaje"
Lannie Kanevsky, Canada
- "Gifted and talented pupils in Inner City Schools"
"Atencion a los alumnos superdotados y con talento en colegios de barrios desfavorecidos de la ciudad"
Deborah Eyre, UK
CONFERENCE:
KEYNOTERS:
- Santiago Grisolía, Spain. Keynote address session. Opening Ceremony
- Lannie Kanevsky, Canada, presenting the A. Harry Passow Memorial Lecture is his former student, a current researcher, and scholar.
- Todd Siler, USA, visual artist, writer, inventor, educator, and consultant.
- Deborah Eyre, England, head of the Research Centre for Able Pupils at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
- Richard Shope, USA, head of educational projects at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in California.
PANEL: New Technologies at the service of Education of Richard Shope. USA
The keynote addresses, symposia, individual presentations, and poster sessions will deal with the conference scientific program:
- Educational innovations and classroom experiences with the gifted
- International, national and local educational policy lines
- Talent in Sports
- Creativity
- Leadership development
- Information technologies used in the education field for intellectually gifted students.
- Gender and giftedness
- The handicapped gifted child
- Emotional deveopment and adaptation
- Parenting: all its different sides
- Talent for Mathematics
- Talent for arts
- World challenges for education
- What do our youth think? (their opinions)
Together with the Scientific program, a socio-cultural program will be provided.