Ural Federal University: Teachers Introduced to Practices of Working with Gifted Children

The XI Congress of Teachers ended at Ural Federal University. The topic of training seminars, master classes and excursions for school teachers was the problem of developing the abilities of gifted children.

Teachers were presented a modern scientific understanding of the essence of giftedness, processes of diagnostics and development of various abilities of students, pedagogical potential of the family, school and university in supporting gifted children and talented youth.

Lectures for teachers from Russia and Kazakhstan were given by university specialists. On the second day, congress participants got acquainted with the Ural Federal University’s Specialized Education and Research Center. The lyceum staff shared their experience and gave a tour of the laboratories.

At the end of the Congress, teachers received certificates of advanced training.