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Recommendations for the use of an observation tool.

Within the Talent Education project, an observational protocol for monitoring talents and talents in children aged 4 to 6 years has been created. The observational protocol was derived from the combination of Gardner's intelligence types (Gardner 1993) and Bloom's revised taxonomy (Anderson et al 2001). The following are examples of tasks through which a teacher can observe children. These examples of tasks are a framework or incentive for the teacher to prepare his own observation tasks. The presented tasks do not represent a standardized observation test.

Sources:

Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple Inteligences.

Anderson, L.W., Krathwohl, D.R., Airasian, P.W., Cruikshank, K.A., Mayer, R.E.,Pintrich, P.R., Raths, J., Wittrock, M.C. (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and

Assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Pearson,Allyn & Bacon.

We are grateful to SLO (talentstimuleren.nl), in particular Nora Steenbergen, Yvonne Janssen and Desirée Houkema to present several tools from their website.

We also rely on the expertise of Eleonoor van Gerven. Her book "Aan de slag met slimme kleuters" (Let's go to work with smart toddlers), presents a lot of insight and tips we could use.

From the United States we used various online articles and presentations. Most of them are cited on relating pages in this toolkit.

The concept of Thinker's Keys is invented and published by Tony Ryan, Australia (http://www.tonyryan.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/Thinkers_Keys_Version1.pdf). Permission is granted to schools or parents who purchase this book to reproduce any part of this material for classroom or personal use.

Further duplication is prohibited.

Many editions and applications are subsequently published in different countries. We used some of them in this website.

Images thinker keys retrieved from: http://thinkerskeys.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Ideas