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Europe simply cannot afford to waste talent. Therefore, nine organisations that are strongly committed to talent development in higher education have joined forces to develop videos that can help teachers spot and stimulate talents. The e-library is divided into the three pillars of honors pedagogy: Creating community, Enhancing academic competence, and Offering freedom.

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Europe simply cannot afford to waste talent. Therefore, nine organisations strongly committed to talent development in higher education have joined forces to develop videos that can help teachers spot and stimulate talents. The e-library is divided into the three pillars of Honors Pedagogy: Creating community, Enhancing academic competence, and Offering freedom.

Creating Community

Cross (1998) defines a learning community as ‘groups of people engaged in intellectual interaction for the purpose of learning’. In an honors community faculty, students and professionals have close contact and form a network in which interaction among them is fostered. You can learn more in this article.

In the context of creating community as one of the three core pillars of honors education this video can be watched by teachers working on or interested in honors.

Sylvia explains different ways of dealing with questions without losing track of your program.

Creating an educational environment that inspires students to do the extraordinary and to make an extra effort, can be done through providing bounded freedom.

In as little as five minutes we’ll give you three different ways to help you to stimulate your honors students to take up an active role in the academic community.

Here, active learning methods are explained so that you can use them for your next class.

This video explores the relationship between students and teachers based on giving and receiving feedback.

This video shows the importance of a dedicated room where honors students and teachers can work together

Enhancing Academic competence

Enhancing academic competence involves critical and reflective thinking and the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. You can learn more in this article.

Be inspired to assess the extraordinary. Talented students might find solutions you have not thought about

Honors programs offer students ways to develop their academic competences that differ from learning experiences made in regular classrooms.

The video contains interviews with honors students and an honors teacher about their experience with talent education and assessment.

Connecting with other domains is important in education, because it broadens students’ awareness and enhances academic competence. Students get first-hand experience with different perspectives.

In this video students explain what makes talent programs existing.

An instructional video on creative thinking: a very handy skill to use when producing alternatives for a case or question.

Transferring knowledge, getting students enthusiastic and triggered by your area of expertise… sounds good?

In this video, three ways to promote critical thinking are presented.

This video explores different ways to teach students to apply their theoretical knowledge

Offering Freedom

VanTassel-Baska & Stambaugh (2005) claim that educators for the academically gifted need to take flexible approaches to content and give students adequate choice: “Without the use of some form of flexibility within the curriculum, adjusting for the need of gifted students in the regular classroom is an impossible task”.
You can learn more in this article.