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Workshop for GIFTED Center and Lithuanian teachers “Education of Gifted Children: The Israeli Experience”
In November, partners from Israel visited the GIFTED Center for Gifted Children of the Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Academy of Education. Roza Leikin, Professor of Mathematics and Gifted Children Education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Haifa, Israel; Daphna Haran, Vice Preside...

Israeli expert Prof. R. Leikin: a bored gifted child is a lost opportunity for a state’s breakthrough
The world-renowned expert in the education of gifted children visited Kaunas, the Gifted Center for Gifted Children of Vytautas Magnus University, where she, together with other foreign education experts, led a workshop for Lithuanian teachers entitled “Gifted Education: The Israeli Experience”. Acc...

Gifted Center begins third academic year
The Gifted Center in Vilnius and Kaunas will soon begin its third school year. The rapidly growing center will welcome children from 4 to 18 years old with 45 teachers who are experts in various fields. All students gather on the day indicated in the schedule for the group they are in. Classes be...

Meet: The Imaginative Engineer and His Museums
Yaron Meiri, a doctor of Middle Eastern history and a specialist in Arabic literature and history, who recently visited Lithuania, also visited the Gifted Center for the Education of Gifted Children, which was established according to the model of such centers operating in Israel. “A gifted child is...

Vacation with friends and… Lithuanian rulers
WE WILL MEET SOON AT GIFTED AND THE ROYAL PALACE DAY CAMP FOR CHILDREN! Only a few days left until the camp at the Royal Palace, where children will not only be able to make new friends, have a great and meaningful time with their peers, but also directly touch the history of Lithuania. Together...

Kaunas becomes a leader in the education of gifted children
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) Rector Prof. Dr. Juozas Augutis, Chancellor of the Academy of Education Prof. Dr. Lina Kaminskienė and Program Coordinator of the Gifted Children Education Center Dileta Tindžiulienė returned from a visit to the University of Haifa in Israel. The contacts and coopera...