In het schooljaar 2026-2027 organiseert het Kenniscentrum Hoogbegaafdheid weer international webinars. Tijdens die webinars is Engels de voertaal. Deze webinars zijn bedoeld voor educatieve professionals en zorg- en hulpverleners die beschikken over een brede kennisbasis met betrekking tot hoogbegaafdheid, maar niet over de mogelijkheid beschikken om deel te nemen aan internationale in-person activiteiten zoals grote internationale congressen.
Op 20 oktober 2026 gaf Nancy Hertzog het webinar ‘Challenging Advanced Young Learners Intellectually’. “The ability to challenge children intellectually is the critical ingredient that differentiates the ordinary classroom from the distinguished one.” (Feinburg & Mindess, 1994, p. 83).
Over het webinar
Teachers need to be skillful facilitators to design and scaffold curricular activities that probe and develop students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This session will empower educators of young, advanced learners to design learning environments that emphasize intellectual goals and engage them in reasoning, hypothesizing, predicting, analyzing ideas, and pursuing deep understanding. An introduction to the Project Approach, outlining an inquiry process will be shared as a way for students to connect learning to their own interests and experiences. Facilitating project investigations addresses students’ unique learning needs, enhances their dispositions to inquire, and makes learning relevant, meaningful, and engaging.
Over de spreker
Dr. Hertzog received her masters’ degree in Gifted Education from the University of Connecticut under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Renzulli, and her Ph.D. in Special Education under her advisor Dr. Merle B. Karnes. Her research examines curricular practices and policies in the field of gifted education. From 1995 to 2010 she was on the faculty in the Department of Special Education and directed University Primary School, an early childhood gifted program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Collaboratively with the head teachers, she won several curriculum awards from the Curriculum Division of the National Association for Gifted Children. She joined the University of Washington in 2010 as a professor in Learning Sciences and Human Development, and the Director of the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars (2010-2020). She served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and has numerous publications in the fields of early childhood and gifted education. Currently her research focuses on equity and access to advanced learning opportunities in schools, and pedagogical strategies that help teachers challenge all students.
