400 students in Dubai schools took gifted tests

The Hamdan Center for Giftedness and Innovation, affiliated with the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Medical and Educational Sciences, revealed the application of tests to discover gifted students for about 400 male and female students in schools in the Emirate of Dubai, on the 20th and 21st of last November, in the program for discovering gifted students.

The director of the center, Dr. Maryam Al-Ghawi, said that the program for discovering gifted students, implemented by the Hamdan Bin Rashid Center for Giftedness and Innovation, represents one of the important initiatives that aims to provide schools and institutions with special mechanisms to detect talent, identify gifted students, and follow best practices in this field.

She added that this matter supports making appropriate decisions regarding the best methods used in educating and training the gifted, identifying clear indicators for them and then developing them in light of the results of the Hamdan Talent Scale, in accordance with the vision and objectives consistent with the educational institution, which aims to invest and employ talent, and encourage the development of talent. Students’ abilities and talents and providing support to them, according to practical foundations and advanced methodological controls that contribute to identifying the needs of gifted students and providing support and programs appropriate to their inclinations and interests, to achieve their future aspirations and benefit from their talents.

She explained that the center aims to discover 5,000 gifted students by the year 2030, and pointed out that 39,000 male and female students underwent the Hamdan Giftedness Scale to discover gifted students from 2017 until today, which resulted in the discovery of 2,207 students, while 122 schools and educational institutions benefited from the scale.

It is noteworthy that the program for discovering gifted students targets students from the fourth to the 12th grade in public and private schools in all the emirates of the country, and through it students are nominated according to two mechanisms, the first is self-nomination, where the student or his guardian fills out his data in the program on the institution’s website, and the second Through collective nomination, which is carried out in coordination with schools and institutions.

The mechanism applied to discover gifted students uses a comprehensive and integrated system that begins with the nomination process and continues until the gifted students are integrated into programs appropriate to their abilities.

Dr. Maryam Al-Ghawi:

. The center aims to discover 5,000 talented students by 2030.