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Guideline for Talents – Go with your talent
We, teachers and children, all have talents, but we don't always know what they are.
As a result, talent is sometimes a difficult concept to grasp - but one that we need to understand if we are to make the most of our lives.
Go with your Talent will help teachers and children to search for their talent and will allow them to make the right choices once they have found their talents.
The road to self-fulfillment and authenticity means focusing wholeheartedly on the things that we are good at.
Going with your talent acts as a kind of life insurance, helping us to maintain our desire to work and learn.
Go with your Talent provides children with tools and principles on how to use their talents in school and in life in general.
Just as ‘genes’ there exists an exhaustive set of ‘talents’, from which each individual either possesses.
There are therefore talents that we are strong in, and those that are just dormant. It is when we, as individuals, tap on our strong talents that we perform to our best and in the process, enjoy it too!
On the flip side, if our work entails us to use those talents that we do not possess, we invariably underperform and get frustrated.
It is when children use their talents that they truly shine.
If every child could know what their talents really are and use them, they are more confident and develop a positive self-esteem.
As individuals it is a paradigm shift towards an efficient way to cooperate and interact in a positive and constructive manner.
It is about discovering your own talents but at the same time acknowledging the ones you need in order to perform better.
The awareness of both opens new possibilities for you and the team around.
Information about the book ‘Go with your talent’
A TED X talk ‘Go with your talent.’ with Luk Dewulf https://youtu.be/QHMuss1vq7Q
Looking at the talents of our children
What can we do as a teacher?
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From looking at the product to looking at the process of the children.
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From where is the deficit, to looking at the whole child.
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Multi disciplinary meeting: what are the strengths, interests and the stimulating factors?
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Transition interview: telling the talents and interests of the child to the other teachers
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Dealing with difficult behavior: give compliments and looking at what’s going well!
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Observe the talents (*1 guide of talents) and interests.
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Intervention started from the talents and interests.
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Looking at the context, your classroom: is there room for all the talents?
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Child interview (*2) with the oldest children (5-6 years) at the end of primary school.
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Parent survey to figure out the interests of children at home.
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During a parents meeting we tell the talents and the positive aspects of the children.
The environment
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Rich environment and space for initiative
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Appreciative glasses
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A sensitive teacher
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Believe in growth, the potential, the opportunities, the talents of EACH CHILD
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From observing deficits to noticing talents
We can’t turn all the children into stars...
but we can let them all shine!!
*1 guide of talents
*2 child interview
