Designing an academic program that provides educational institutions with specialized cadres

Hamdan Educational Awards rewards outstanding students with 32 scholarships for master’s studies

Hamdan Center for Giftedness and Innovation specializes in discovering and nurturing talented and innovators.

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The Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Distinguished Academic Performance has awarded 32 scholarships to outstanding students who won the Foundation’s awards, to study a master’s degree in Innovative Education at the UAE University. third batch.

The Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Secretary-General of the Foundation, Dr. Jamal Al-Muhairi, told «Emirates Today» that the Master of Innovative Education program seeks to achieve four main goals, the first is to attract winners in the Foundation's competitions, and provide them with aftercare, and the second is to qualify the winners from the educators to be able to Leadership excellence in educational performance, and the third is the qualification of specialized cadres in various educational fields, according to international standards that are adopted by reputable institutions in educational work, and the fourth is the preparation of highly qualified and professional educational leaders to contribute to the process of making excellence across the school and educational institution, and upgrading the educational system in Country.

He added that "the Foundation invested its partnership with the UAE University in designing an academic program that provides educational institutions with cadres specialized in innovative education.

Al-Muhairi stated that the need in the educational sector for initiatives that achieve the required qualitative leap in the field of education development, was the motive behind the directive of the late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to establish the Hamdan Center for Giftedness and Innovation, by providing the opportunity to discover and nurture talented people, who carry creative ideas and innovative developments. They can turn it into reality. He pointed out that the center has become one of the institutions specialized in the field of discovering and nurturing the gifted and innovators, through a package of services it provides, including the discovery of talented students according to a set of codified scientific tools that are compatible with the environment of the UAE, which is known as the Hamdan Scale for Giftedness, which was developed It was carried out by specialized experts in international universities, adding that the "Hamdan Talent Scale" is the latest Arab standard and is globally recognized in the field of discovering talented students.

Al Muhairi explained that the Hamdan Talent Scale works to achieve several goals, including providing a specialized and diverse measurement tool, and flexible application mechanisms for the scale, with the aim of measuring the abilities of gifted students, in line with the environmental, cultural, educational and educational factors of the UAE community, and building a database for discovered talented students. Students enrolled in the program to discover talented students in the country, which is updated annually, in addition to providing awareness and guidance programs targeting talented students about the methods used, the quality of tools used in the measurement processes, and the criteria and possibilities for students to pass the Hamdan Gifted Scale.

On the unification of efforts at the state level to care for the talented, Al Muhairi said that the talented are a national wealth in any country, as they are among the most important causes of progress and development, so some countries pay special attention to them, and in the UAE the leadership cares about the talented sector, then institutions, including the Ministry of Education Education, the Emirates Association for the Gifted, the Emirates Science Club, the Hamdan Foundation, and others.

He added, "We have worked to implement a national plan for the care of the gifted, and we have been able to make achievements in terms of discovery and sponsorship."

Methods of dealing with talented people

The Hamdan Talent Scale provides awareness programs targeting parents of talented students about the methods used, tools for discovering talented students, the nomination mechanism, and methods of dealing with gifted students in the home environment, and providing awareness programs targeting teachers of talented students about the methods used to discover gifted students. The nomination mechanism, methods of dealing with gifted students in the classroom environment, and the provision of a specialized consulting service in the areas of discovering gifted students, targeting students, their families, and teachers of gifted students.

The initiative aims to raise their awareness of the culture of talent, support innovators by providing workshops in the field of innovation, and provide them with the opportunity to invest the capabilities available in the center in the field of manufacturing and work on specialized devices.

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