Royaرويا Klingnerكلينكنر   Premium-Mitglied   Gruppenmoderator

Ich über mich:
Ich bin so wie ich bin und lerne jeden Tag dazu besser zu werden.
Hauptziel---->begabte und hochbegabte Kinder zu helfen!
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Ein Interview von Prof. Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy mit mir in Education news unter dem folgenden Link am 14. Aug 2008 erschienen:
http://ednews.org/articles/an-interview-with-roya-klingner-r...
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1) Thirty years ago, you were involved with gifted students. Tell us about those years.
The first president of world council for gifted and talented children, Dr. Iraj Broomand, started a program for gifted children in Iran about
30 years ago. The kindergarten teacher recommended that my mother should send an application for me to join that school. In order to join that school it was necessary for me to take a test. I passed this test with flying colors and joined that school. All that happend a few years before the iranian revoloution. I didn´t really know anything about high ability but I knew, I was different. That made me curious.
 
2) Who were your mentors and how did they influence you?
I didn´t really have a certain person as mentor when I tried to find out about who I am and giftedness. I bought and read a lot of books by many different authors in different languages. Everybody I asked told me that I was gifted but nobody really told me what giftedness really was about. I didnt want applause I just wanted a logical answer.
Later on, I was influenced by the theories of Gardner and Mönks.
 
3) What kinds of changes have you seen in gifted education over the past 30 years?
The main things that changed were:
 
* Deffinition of giftedness
* Grading of intelligent
* socialrelationship with the topic of giftedness
 

4) What are you currently working on?
It was always my goal to help and support gifted children and their parents. Now I´m working freelance on it. I am also working on a book to explain high ability to children.
 

5) What are some of the mental health issues of the gifted that need to be explored and examined?
There are still a lot of mental health issues of the gifted that need to be explored and these are some of them:
 
* sensitivity
* emotional stability
* social competence
* spiritual needs
 
6) What do you see as the main parenting issues?
 
* The handling of the situation that the child is gifted. Quite of parents are overstraind with that.
* Teaching their children to handle normality.
* To know that high ability does not equal high performence.
 

7) How receptive are the schools to gifted children? Are there nations in the world that seem to be more eager to work with gifted pupils?
Unfortunately the situation in Germany for gifted children is far from optimal.
- Of course, a lot of nations are very eager to work with gifted pupils like: USA, UK, Singapour, Iran,... However their goal seems more to be to make high performers than happy gifted children.
 

8) What kinds of training do you think teachers need to work with gifted kids?
Teachers are taught more about learning deficiencies than high ability. It is imperativ that education of teachers includes more about giftedness theories and ways to support gifted children without overstraining them.
 
9) What kind of research are you currently engaged in?
At the moment I am working on a program for solution oriented training for gifted children, mainly underachievers ( from de Shazer) and together with my husband, we also are exploring virtual-environments for possibilities of training gifted children.
 

10) What question have I neglected to ask ?
what do I wish for the futur of gifted and talented children? I wish more understanding and acceptance for this topic and happiness for those children around the world.