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Rethinkers are running special workshops in Jordan’s capital, Amman, to meet the needs of Gifted Students. Aimed at International and National Schools in Jordan, workshops will be held in twilight hours over three days (12 hours training).
Date: 6th – 8th December 2018
Time : 4 - 8 pm each evening
Venue: Rotana Amman Hotel, Amman
The workshops aim to:
Meet the needs of Gifted Students in the classroom
Offer opportunities to expand perspectives and learning
Provide Enrichment programmes
Objectives and Desired Outcomes:
Defining Giftedness & Highly Gifted
Characteristics of Gifted Children
Dealing with their needs & problems
Identification Tools
Practical tools
Enrichment programs
Integrative hands-on learning
Innovative keys in classrooms for gifted student
ReThinkers is a leading company in the Arab World established on the
aspiring vision of highly skilled experts and professionals in the
domains of giftedness and creativity. One of their main aims is to
enable the development of creativity, creative thinking and problem
solving in business and education in Jordan.
Since 2014 they have
launched and held many educational workshops in the fields of thinking
and emotional intelligence with a variety of leading figures
inside/outside the Arab Region.
In 2017 Rethinkers embarked on a
partnership with Thinking Matters. The aim is to develop thinking
schools in Jordan and Rethinkers have completed the first phase of
training. Thinking Matters trained the whole team based in Jordan,
covering all the main Thinking Schools elements and components.
ReThinkers has started to expand and spread the culture of teaching
thinking in Arabic schools in the Middle East. They have reached some
very distinguished schools that are beginning their own journeys to
adopting a whole school approach to the teaching of thinking.
Rethinkers
believe very strongly in the Thinking Matters approach and concepts and
are focused to deliver them to different segments in their society.
They have already included them in many forums that were attended by
groups of participants from the Arabian Peninsula.
In March 2018,
ReThinkers held its fourteenth forum for creativity and emotional
intelligence by the supervision of Dr. Lana Almbayden and Dr. Tareq
Rasheed.
Gemma AukettThinking School Lead and House Parent, Gordon's School Throughout my time working in education, I have developed an interest in the brain, cognition and metacognition. This is partly due to personal experience but also my genuine desire to see my students achieve their full academic and personal potential..
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