Director Robert Kelemen about the cooperation
“Our main motivation to start cooperation with the RITHA programme was to provide the best possible opportunity to gain experience about gifted education for teachers and trainers in our Centres of Excellence. Learn from the best, is our motto. I can recommend others to work with the Radboud University, and especially the RITHA programme, because they will get a partner who thinks creatively to suit their needs and provides a programme that changes perspectives on gifted education and offers freedom in setting the educational goals of participants.” According to Robert Kelemen, Director of the European Talent Centre Croatia.
RITHA Trainer Julija Kukec
"I meet gifted children every day. As a preschool psychologist working in kindergarten, I see challenges these children, their teachers, and their parents face in the regular education system. And I also see the need to provide them a different approach. This is what motivated me to start the RITHA programme.
What makes this programme specific is solid, scientifically based theoretical foundation and learning how to implement these findings in practice. Also, the opportunity to learn from top experts in the field of gifted education. I also want to highlight the continuous support of teachers through positive supervision and the connection to a network of international experts in the field of giftedness, which provides great opportunities for cooperation.
By participating in RITHA programme, I acquired variety of important skills: how to identify gifted children, how to design, implement and evaluate different programs and forms of working with these children. I also gained a greater understanding of creativity and how to encourage it in different environments and systems, and increased my skills in the field of working with parents of gifted children."
Julija is one of our five RITHA trainers in Croatia. She successfully completed the RITHA Specialist programme and the RITHA train-the-trainer trajectory.
About ETC Hrvatska - CIVZ
The European Talent Center Croatia - Centers of Excellence of Varaždin County offers:
- formal and informal programs of adult education training (training and retraining programs)
- informal forms of adult education (courses, seminars, etc.),
- highly specialized training in other areas of great importance for the education system of Varaždin County (new technologies, teaching aids, drones, humanoid robots, development of digital content, development of classrooms of the future, etc.).
RITHA
If you are interested to join forces with us and offer your teachers, counsellors or policy makers a high quality, science-based training on high ability, then contact us to learn more about the possibilities.