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Project

Portfolio of talents - local consultation platform Aarschot.

Realizing equal opportunities in education, resuires an approach focusing on children with special needs, especially children from deprived areas. Often this approach is dominated by the 'deficit model' in which detection (in an early stage) of the weakness and lacking competencies and the elimination of these guide the interventions. The effectiveness of this practice for the targeted children on an long term however, is seriously questioned, eg. when looking at the figures on unqualified school drop (Van Landeghem & Van Damme, 2009). With the 'talent model', we want to offer an alternative approach in which we start by looking at the strengths and potentials of children and focus on the motivation and the development of a growth mindset (Dweck, C.). To support this positive approach this project aims at the development of a portfolio that stimulates children to explore their interests, their ambitions, their passions,... in fact, their talents. The frame for this endeavor is based on the competencies as elaborated in the 'Process Oriented Child Monitoring System' (CEGO). In coorperation with 12 Primary Schools in Aarschot, we organize school specific and cross-school initiatives in which we stimulate teachers to focus on the talents instead of the deficits of children in their class (paradigm shift). The concept of 'extended schools', encourages us to work together with local partners beyond the schools to broaden the talent model for children and parents.
Date:1 Sep 2010 →  31 Aug 2015
Keywords:Extended schools, Portfolio, Selfconcept, Motivation, Equal opportunities in education, Primary education, Talents
Disciplines:Education curriculum, Education systems, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Specialist studies in education, Other pedagogical and educational sciences