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Umbrella of Giftedness
in Dutch: Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid
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Origin
The parent organizations Pharos, HINT Nederland and Choochem decided to join forces in 2000. What started as regular meetings between the chairs of the different organizations became the ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ (Umbrella of Giftedness) in 2003. The ‘Foundation Koepel Hoogbegaafheid’ started in 2009.
Information
The ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ distributes its information in different ways: at symposiums, seminars and informational meetings. The Koepel can also be found on the biannual ‘Nationale Onderwijs Tentoonstelling’ (National Exhibition of Education).
The ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ has composed a book with several articles about the many different aspects of giftedness. These articles were written by various experts in the field.
Mission
The mission of the ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ is to create a society in which highly gifted people can reach their full potential: a society in which their talents can be fully developed and in which they have the same kind of chances as other citizens. The Koepel wants to support them in all their material and intangible needs.
The ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ is an important representative of highly gifted people in The Netherlands. The Koepel wants to raise specific awareness for the highly gifted in education. One of their goals is a compulsory course in ‘how to deal with the highly gifted child’ for all primary school teachers.
The influence of government policy and politics in general is another point of great importance. The Koepel will of course also maintain good relations with all organisations and consultancies with similar goals.
Quality
To insure that the
organisations and
consultancies that
deal with giftedness
maintain a high standard
the ‘Koepel Hoogbegaafdheid’ registers persons considered competent to work with the highly gifted. In 2016 they established the “Quality Register Giftedness”. Working together with people in the field they have formulated the rules for admission. Parents can use this register to easily find quality support in dealing with giftedness.
Why attention for giftedness?
About 2.5 percent of our population is highly gifted. In
the Netherlands that amounts to about 430,000 people.
Highly gifted people have a different view on life than their
neighbours, family or friends. They may respond differently
to people and situations around them.
More attention has been paid to gifted people during
the last few decades. More and more we have come to
realize that talent will only develop through hard work
and learning from your own mistakes. Things don’t just
‘come naturally’, and this is especially true for highly
gifted people. To think that you won’t have to learn and
never have to work hard if you are highly gifted is naive.
This thought, which seems intuitively correct, can have
disastrous results for young developing minds, but also
for adults when dealing with communication errors in the
workplace.
The highly gifted person’s ‘different way of thinking’ can
give him stress in childhood as well as in adult life. How
much can you adapt to your surroundings without
losing yourself in the process? Could your surroundings
better accommodate you? Young children can experience
this different way of thinking as a personal shortcoming
and it thus can have a negative effect on their confidence.
The advocacy for highly gifted adults is improving.
Nevertheless employers are not always up to date on
the best ways to accommodate their gifted workers and the gifted
individuals themselves are also not always well informed.
Are you looking for a specialist to guide your highly gifted child?
Take a look on
KwaliteitsRegister HoogBegaafdheid
At the moment only available for The Netherlands
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