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Special Talented Children Education Research and Application Center

About us

The aim of Zaim’s Special Talented Children Education Research and Application Center is to inform parents and teachers about the characteristics of special talented children, to carry out tests for them to be recognized as special talented, to organize programs in order to support the academic, social, and effective development of these talented children, their families, and teachers.

A special talented child is a child whose intelligence, creativity, art, sports, leadership capacity, or special academic areas are high-performing than their peers and he or she is determined by the experts.

The center operates in the following areas:

  1. To inform the families and teachers of the talented children of the region where the university is located as well as other regions about the characteristics of the special talented children.
  2. To organize programs in order to support the academic, social, and effective development of these talented children, their families and teachers.
  3. To detect their high level thinking skills and to implement programs to develop these skills.
  4. To train teachers of special talented students to prepare differentiated curriculum.
  5. To cooperate with scientists and institutions related to the center's work.
  6. To publish copyright and translation works related to the subject.

 

Director

Asst.prof. Hatice KADIOĞLU ATEŞ

Board of directors

Asst.prof. Faruk KANGER

Asst. prof. Turgay ŞİRİN

Asst.prof. Nüket AFAT

Asst.prof. Esra TÜRK

Advisory board

Prof. Dr. Adnan KULAKSIZOĞLU 

Doç. Dr. Hasan Said TORTOP