What is de RITHA Specialist training?
For more than 25 years, Radboud University has offered the ECHA Specialist Giftedness training. The training has been intensively developed and evolved within the RadboudCSW into a state-of-the-art training in the field of giftedness: the Radboud International Training on High Ability, or RITHA for short. This training can be followed online or 'blended' in Nijmegen (Radboud University), Eindhoven (in collaboration with RINO Zuid), Rotterdam (in collaboration with CED) and Amsterdam (in collaboration with ABC).
The first twelve months you learn about the fundamentals and core themes of and scientific insights about giftedness, and the skills needed to translate science into practice (RITHA Practitioner program). In the last twelve months, you will work, from this knowledge and skills, on a concrete end product for practice. In this way you make a scientific contribution to the field of giftedness.
Upon completion of this course:
- You are familiar with the latest scientific insights in the field of giftedness;
- You are able to identify (sometimes not yet visible) possibilities and educational needs of the gifted and highly gifted;
- You have evidence-based skills to guide gifted and highly gifted children, adolescents or adults;
- Have developed your own final product that you can use in practice as a care or education professional or independent coach;
- Have made new contacts and expanded your professional network;
- Will receive the RITHA Specialist Certificate (Radboud University) and the ECHA Certificate (European Council for High Ability).
