Mentiqa covers a concept of views on and experiences with

education of highly gifted pupils Gifted education (also known as gifted and talented education (GATE), talented and gifted programs (TAG), or G/T education) is a broad group of special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified a ...

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. It was founded by

Pernille Buch-Rømer Pernille is a Danish and Norwegian female given name derived from ''Petronella'', and may refer to: *Pernille Dupont, retired female badminton player from Denmark *Pernille Fischer Christensen (born 1969), Danish film director and sister of actor ...

in the belief that schooling with like-minded children makes it possible for the highly gifted pupil to develop adequate

social skills A social skill is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with others where social rules and relations are created, communicated, and changed in verbal and nonverbal ways. The process of learning these skills is called sociali ...

. Thus the main point of Mentiqa is to care for the well-being of its pupils, which is made possible through the acceptance of the highly gifted pupil's special behaviour and way of thinking. This means that concepts such as inclusiveness and

differentiated teaching Differentiated instruction and assessment, also known as differentiated learning or, in education, simply, differentiation, is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing all students within their diverse classroom com ...

are defined through a fundamental idea that treating children equally is treating them differently.

Mentiqa schools

In Denmark,

congregated schools for highly gifted pupils List of gifted and talented programs is a list of gifted education programs located all across the world. Africa Egypt S.T.E.M Egypt located in Cairo, a girl's branch in Maadi, a boy's branch in the 6th of October district and a mixed branch in El ...

occur only as private initiatives. Therefore, Mentiqa schools are private schools established and run by parents of highly gifted pupils. The first Mentiqa-school was established in Søborg, a suburb of

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, in 2004. Mentiqa-Odense was established on

Fyn Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

in 2006 and closed in 2015, shortly before the first Mentiqa-school changed its name to Atheneskolen (the

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of ...

School). Mentiqa-Nordjylland (Northern

Jutland Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...

) was established in

Ålborg Aalborg (, , ) is Denmark's fourth largest town (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022). As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aa ...

in 2008,Mentiqa-Nordjylland - The school for gifted children
but no Mentiqa-school has been established since.

References

External links

Pernille Buch-Rømer - Official page

Mentiqa-Nordjylland - Official page

Atheneskolen - Official page
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