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Some pupils manage to turn their talent into academic achievement. This requires diligence and motivation, support and opportunities. Other pupils are frustrated, demotivated, unfocussed or fidgety at school - despite or because of their above-average cognitive talent. We make a clear distinction between giftedness and performance!
Since the school was newly founded in the 2018/19 school year, we have been working every day to shape our school profile with our practical educational work in such a way that the basis of our thoughts and actions in line with the goals and values of UNESCO is clearly recognisable. Through our educational work, we send the children off into their and therefore our future with a high sense of responsibility.
Talent: The (possibly latent) performance potential that enables a person to achieve a certain level of performance in a particular area of talent.
Performance: Competent application of one's own abilities that has already become visible (in the school context) and thus the manifestation of talent.
The concept CHALLENGE is aimed at all those with significantly above-average cognitive abilities, regardless of their academic performance. High achievers, lateral thinkers, creative minds, intellectual leaps and underachievers (gifted underachievers) are welcome!
We are a school for everyone! That is why the promotion of pupils with above-average cognitive abilities is firmly anchored in our school concept.
For children with above-average cognitive abilities, there are no programmes above grammar school level.
Some of these pupils also have special requirements, e.g. high sensitivity, a pronounced sense of justice, autistic traits, creativity and much more.
The resulting behaviour of the children is often met with a lack of understanding and then leads to conflicts with teachers and other children.
Constant underchallenge is stressful. Particular behaviours trigger conflicts and frustration. Many children develop strategies to cope with this.
A downward spiral of underchallenge, boredom, "switching off", resulting gaps in the material and poor grades can lead to pupils standing out negatively at school and not performing well.
Children are not yet able to understand the problem and put it into words. They often doubt themselves, not the school.
We start at different points in order to do justice to even above-average underachievers:
Challenge instead of underchallenge through regular lessons above grammar school level (5-fold differentiation)
Small, individual learning groups to close gaps in a targeted and compact way and enable students to work at their own pace (Maths Plus, English Go!)
Promotion of independent work (Master MINT)
Discovering, experiencing and developing your own talents through coaching (BrainStorming)
Motivating offers with creative, complex tasks in the field of electrical engineering and computer science (EI Lab)
Diligence, ambition and motivation or the "annoying nerd"? Many people with above-average cognitive abilities do not fit into this category. They are individually different - just like everyone else.
Many people recognise themselves in the terms in this picture:
We look forward to welcoming new faces to our gifted and talented programme. Please feel free to contact us.
Neue Schule Dorsten leads to all lower secondary school-leaving qualifications and ensures access to the gymnasiale Oberstufe (upper secondary school) through binding cooperation.
All children are supported in such a way that they achieve the best educational qualification for them after Year 10.
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