Münster September 2012, Petra Summer ECHA-Austria Welcome, Ladies and Gentleman! 1.

Münster September 2012, Petra Summer ECHA-Austria

Welcome,Ladies and Gentleman!

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Münster September 2012, Petra Summer ECHA-Austria 2

Present Situation and New Developments


Austria, in the heart of Europe, Inhabitants: 8,452 Mill.


ECHA-Austria Verein für Begabungsförderung und Begabungsforschung

Association for the Promotion of Giftedness and Talent Research

Founded 1998 in Salzburg (Franz Mönks, Sieglinde Weyringer) due to high demand on coordination

National association in connection with ECHA-International

ECHA has consultative status at the “Europarat” (Council of Europe)

Serves as a communication network

Promotes information sharing


Set-up of Presentation

Teacher training-programmes for Gifted

Education

Special activities: - Annual ECHA-Conference

- “Talent Day“

- Platon Youth Forum

- Grundtvig - Project


Teacher training-programmes for Gifted Education:ECHA-courses Tradition of ECHA-courses began

15 years ago, Initiator: ECHA-Austria

Cooperation with „Pädagogischen Hochschulen“ (pedagogical colleges)

numerous ECHA-courses all organized according to ECHA-guidelines in 6 of the 9 provinces

official diploma „Specialist in Gifted Education“

excellent idea found many followers


Non-ECHA-courses

More or less leaned on the ECHA-guidelines

Similar aims, contents, methods of assessment and other prerequisites

No ECHA-Diploma, but Course Certificate of the pedagogical college


Courses for Gifted Education in Austria: Statistics

More than 800 ECHA-teachers in Austriain all 9 provinces

Unknown number of graduates of independent courses

Tendency in the last years:More than half of the courses are independent, attended by an increasing number of teachers


Structure of ECHA-courses

Approach: Theoretical background intermingled with reports on

practical experience 4-5 modules presence, but also self-study study of literature („ECHA-Reader“) written exam Thesis (usually short survey on theory and description

of practical experiences in teaching and instruction) Excursions abroad (Münster, Nijmegen, Basel) or

Hospitations of schools who practice Gifted Education Defensio


Master Courses

MA-Master of Arts course “Gifted Education and Coaching“: Danube University Krems, 5 Semester, 120 ECTS Blended Learning

MEd-Master of Education course “Talent-Person- Potential: Value-based Giftedness and Gifted Education”, Church College of Education (KPH) Vienna-Krems:

Integration of the religious-ethic-philosophic dimension of education and latest scientific findings of neuro-sciences

6 semester, 120 ECTS

Certified Program: 2 semester, ECHA-Diploma and/or voluntarily available(Internationales eVOCATIOn-Zertifikat oder/und ECHA-Diplom)


Further Teacher Training

Local seminars (e.g. ECHA-Follow-up PH Lower Austria)

Salzburg Conferences (özbf) (every 2 years in November)

Conferences in other parts of Austria and abroad

Annual Austrian ECHA-Conference (eyery year in another province)


Special activities

Annual ECHA-Conference

Melk Abbey, Lower Austria, April 6th - 8th 2011

“Personalized Approach to Gifted Education versus Educational Standards - a Contradiction?”

Combination of theoretical lectures with the latest scientific findings and Best-practice examples from schools, associations and institutions offer practical suggestions for the implementation of funding schemes.


Linz, Upper Austria, April 18th - 20th, 2012“Turning possibilities into realities:Systemic promotion of giftedness”


Preview 2013

International eVOCATIOn-Kongress / Symposium of the KPH Vienna / ECHA Conference

„Begabung-Person-Pluralität: Personale Begabungsförderung als pädagogische Haltung“

“Talent-Person-Plurality: Personal gifted education as a pedagogical and educational attitude”

28.02. – 02. 03.2012, Akademie der Wissenschaft, Vienna


Talent Day 2012, March 22nd

Presentation of creative projects on the topic

"Clever Together. Dialogue of Generations“

Organisation: The Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), the Austria's Center for Gifted Education and Talent Research (özbf), the Landesschulräte (Boards of Education) and ECHA-Austria

Nationwide Talent Day as Austrian contribution to the annual European Talent Day (first time in March 2011, Hungarian Initiative)

Theme selected in reference to the EU-annual theme"Active Aging and Intergenerational Solidarity“

Aspects of the promotion, transfer and appreciation of talent talent across generations are taken up

Every two years


Talent Day 2012, March 22nd

Presentation of creative projects on the topic

"Clever Together. Dialogue of Generations“


Special activities

Platon Youth Forum:

In cooperation with University of Salzburg / Department of Education

annually since 2004: one-week international summer camp in late July in Salzburg, Obertrum

different workshops


Grundtvig-Project (finished)

Democratic Learning Learning in Democracies refers to the fields of

participation civic and political education Human Rights education Intercultural learning

promotes dialogue and controversy conceives participation as an objective and a means of learning includes learners from different social and cultural backgrounds

is a concept developped in the Grundtvig Learning Partnership "Democracy Learning in the Process of Life Long Learning" 2005-2007

Partner organisations from Greece, France and Germany

http://www.democracy-learning.com/dlearning/


Committee


Membership

15 Euro annual fee, 97 paying members

Benefits from full membership: reduced registration fee at ECHA – Austria

conferences (minus 15 Euro) reduced subscription fee for the "Journal of gifted

education" (20% to the price of the annual subscription, please specify when ordering: full member of ECHA-Austria)

free News-Letter "ECHA Austria Info", several times a year electronically


More information:

www.echa-oesterreich.at

Thank you for your attention!

Münster September 2012, Petra Summer ECHA-Austria Welcome, Ladies and Gentleman! 1.

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