short educational films

Overview

Short educational films provided by the World Giftedness Center are essential online resources in the fields of gifted education and talent development. Each film will take you around two to six minutes to watch. By watching these films, you will get some fundamental knowledge relevant to important topics in giftedness. Specifically, you can learn the basic scientific knowledge about important concepts in gifted education, such as giftedness, creativity, twice exceptionality. You can also learn the scientific criteria to evaluate different gifted programs, such as identification, mentoring, acceleration, enrichment, or any other relevant programs. The World Giftedness Center welcomes you to watch these short educational films to explore and learn more about topics in giftedness that you are interested in. After watching these films, if you want to learn more deeply about any of these topics, please register for the relevant online courses or workshops from our website.

3 min 26 sec

Giftedness

In this educational film, we will learn what historical figures and psychologists today mean when they talk about giftedness.

3 min 26 sec

Creativity

This educational film explores what we mean when we talk about creativity, and what it means to be creative.

What makes best identification for the gifted?

6 min 13 sec

What makes best identification for the gifted?

What is giftedness identification? What identification approaches have been adopted? What are the criteria of an effective identification program? By watching this video, you will find out the answers to these questions. These criteria can be helpful if you need to judge the quality of an identification program, or if you want to plan a new identification program. Enjoy it!

3 min 57 sec

Learning and Educational Capital

What does science have to say about excellence? This educational film explores what parents, teachers, and researchers can do to cultivate excellence as a child learns.

What makes best mentoring for the gifted?

6 min 6 sec

What makes best mentoring for the gifted?

When should I consider choosing a mentoring program? How can mentoring be professionally planned and carried out? How can I judge the quality of a mentoring program? If you have these questions in mind, you are in the right place. Check them out of this video. Enjoy it!

2 min 17 sec

Twice Exceptional Students

In this short educational film, you will learn what psychologists mean when they talk about twice exceptional people.

4 min 18 sec

Mentoring

This short educational film helps define what mentoring is, where mentoring is and can be applied, as well as what it takes for mentoring to be effective.

What are the gifted counseling needs and how to address it?

6 min 11 sec

What are the gifted counseling needs and how to address it?

This short educational film provides an overview of the counseling needs of the gifted. For example, the uneven cognitive, emotional, and physical development might create socialization challenges. When dealing with family expectations, the gifted might have anxiety over early career planning. Under these conditions, counselors and other professionals shall consider a counseling intervention. Meanwhile, from this film, you can learn the best practices in counseling to meet the needs of the gifted in an effective way.

6 min 39 sec

What makes best gifted acceleration?

What is acceleration? In what types can acceleration be implemented? Will acceleration bring positive academic and psychosocial effects or lead to negative outcomes? What criteria can I follow if I plan to implement an effective acceleration program or judge whether a current accelerative program is effective? This short educational film will help answer these questions.

6 min 10 sec

What makes best gifted advocacy?

Why advocacy for gifted education is important and necessary? What goals can advocacy for gifted education achieve? What criteria can be followed in order to effectively achieve advocacy goals? If you want to advocate for your gifted students or kids and have these questions in mind, watching this short educational film will be a good start.