I offer the best advice for parents of gifted children. If you do not know how handle your child, no worry!

Make an appointment with me and you will be happy to receive realistic educational practice to create a good relationship with your child.

If you are looking for:

• an expert in gifted education with more than 10 years of experience in the field
• someone who uses and evidence-base approach
• realistic and concrete advice to spend immediately
• flexibility
• professionalism, kindness and helpfulness

And if you love Italian pedagogy (Montessori, Malaguzzi with his Reggio Children approach, don Lorenzo Milani, etc.) that means that you are looking for me!

Who am I?

I am Martina Brazzolotto and I am specialist in Gifted and Talented Education. Briefly my education is:

• B.A. in Primary Education (University of Padua, Italy)
• Specialized program in Gifted and Talented Education (University of Pavia, Italy; Irvine University, California, University of Connecticut, and Emporia State University, Kansas)
• Ph.D. in Gifted and Talented Education (University of Bologna, Italy)

I have been consultating for 10 years, and I am ready to share my high level of expertise with you!

L'articolo Consultation for parents of gifted children proviene da Centro Didattica Talenti.

The Italian “Gentile reform”, in 1923, distinguishes secondary schools into four types: the five-year gymnasium, which gave access to the classical or scientific high school; the three-year technical institute, followed by four years of higher technical institute; the seven-year teaching institution for future teachers; the complementary school, at the end of which it was not possible to enrol in any other school.
During the Fascist period, the choice of high school depended on the student’s abilities, as well as on family values. If a pupil did not succeed in school, he had to follow a cruel fate. Today, however, with the variety of secondary schools, the selection criterion should not concern the grades collected in the middle school. Still today, however, there is a common tendency to make your child choose the school on the basis of performance: if it is low, vocational school; if it is medium, technical school and, finally, if it is high, high school.

The automaticity of this mechanism does not consider the dreams, interests or talents of our children.

Suppose that a boy or a girl has an excellent performance in all subjects and that the mother wants the son to do the scientific high school (“because he must become a doctor”); the grandmother, instead, wants the grandson to do the classical high school, as there is conviction (of fascist type) that is the only school to offer a solid preparation, the boy feels deeply confused and disoriented. After 5 meetings I realized that his talent was about language learning. Why not choose a language school? The answer I heard from his mother (a few weeks ago) was: “my son is wasted on a language high school”. There remains the conviction that secondary school must be chosen on the basis of the abilities and will of parents or grandparents, hiding and obscuring the interests and talents of the children.

Today there are plenty of secondary schools (see here) that offer kids a curriculum to develop their skills and fulfill their dreams. I think it is really harmful to keep forcing kids to choose a secondary school on the basis of their parents’ or grandparents’ dreams.

For these reasons I propose a path of identification of inclinations, interests and talent so that the secondary school is identified to fulfill a desire of the boy/girl, in order to avoid early school leaving due to the inconsistency between the inclinations of the child/ a and the expectations of parents or grandparents.

by Martina Brazzolotto

16 January 2021

For more info write to martinabrazzolotto@gmail.com

L'articolo Orientation routes proviene da Centro Didattica Talenti.

If parental education offers the possibility to choose a teaching considered “better” than school, there is the risk that parents can entrust their children to unqualified staff or (perhaps worse) to experts who practice -exclusively- in everyday life another job.

In addition, private teachers contacted directly by parents could focus more on the cognitive side than the care and development of social skills, since, as appropriate, Pupils could experience the formative moment in solitude or in a small group.

The risk of biasing training only on content, neglecting sociality is stronger when there is a pupil with surplus equipment (gifted student). The pupil or the pupil tends to ask many questions that, of course, should be answered by the teacher, but at the same time it would be important to support the growth of sociality, giving the opportunity to play or otherwise relate to peers in times unstructured.

In this sense, parents who opt for parental education or homeschooling, so that pupils (all, including gifted) can develop both knowledge and sociality, could:

– contact qualified teachers (with qualifications and skills attesting to their role as teachers);
– to develop a project-based curriculum;
– adopt a cooperative approach, favouring group work;
– establish networks with the territory;
– to accompany parental training with an education geared towards autonomy and a sense of duty;
– enhance talents and teach how to share them in today’s (Italian) society.

For those interested in receiving clarification or advice, write me here: martinabrazzolotto@gmail.com

L'articolo PARENTAL EDUCATION OR HOMESCHOOLING proviene da Centro Didattica Talenti.

The training course for parents with children/ adolescents with additional equipment aims to support parents in the difficult role of educators, answering the questions above (and many others) through a pedagogical approach.

Contents

-(Ri)know the features of surplus and/or high potential

-Additional equipment and double exceptionality

-Added endowment and management of emotions

-Educational styles for growing children/ teenagers with surplus equipment

-Management of the brothers

Dates

Saturday 26 September from 9:30 to 12:30

Saturday 3 October from 9:30 to 12:30

Rapporteur

Dr Martina Brazzolotto (see www.didatticatalenti.com )

Modality

Remotely

For info: martinabrazzolotto@gmail.com

L'articolo Training course for parents proviene da Centro Didattica Talenti.