Association of Parents and Friends for Supporting Talent

Association of Parents and Friends for Supporting Talent (ASPAT) is an educational organization gathering educators, teachers, parents, professionals and community persons interested in the area of Gifted Education and Talent Development. Its main purposes involve: raising awareness and positive feelings toward the gifted and talented; conducting and publishing research on gifted education; organizing Gifted Education events and programs for interested students, parents and teachers; planning and giving short term courses to prepare teachers for the gifted (facilitators); starting and providing technical support to new CEDETs (Centre for Talent and Potential Development) in other communities within Brazil. ASPAT’s main activity with children is carried on at CEDET, beginning with identification through direct observation data collected at the local schools every year; after identification each student develops his/hers own individual work plan focused on his/hers ability domain. Presently there are four CEDETs in Brazil.

Centre for Talent and Potential Development

The Centre for Talent and Potential Development (CEDET) is a special education center created by Zenita Guenther in Lavras, MG, Brazil, in 1993. CEDET is run by the Lavras School System with technical and civil responsibility delegated to the Association of Parents and Friends for Supporting Talent (ASPAT). Its main goal is to cultivate the proper physical and social environment for complementing and supplementing educational support to the gifted and talented student. At present, there are 512 gifted students age 7 to 17 enrolled at CEDET, around 5% of Lavras Basic School population. The students come from thirteen Municipal Schools, eight State Schools and two private schools, plus a group of students from nearby communities brought in by their families.

Centro para el Desarrollo del Potencial y el Talento

CEDET (Centro para el Desarrollo del Potencial y el Talento), órgano municipal vinculado a la Coordinación de Educación Especial de la Secretaría Municipal de Educación, con responsabilidad técnica de la Asociación de Padres y Amigos para Apoyo al Talento (ASPAT), desde el inicio de su funcionamiento, en 1993 viene trabajando regularmente con una proporción de 4 a 6% de la población escolar, al nivel de la Educación Básica. En 2015 trabajamos con un total aproximado de 512 alumnos, lo que incluye tanto a la red pública como a las escuelas privadas. Actualmente son atendidas trece escuelas municipales, ocho estatales y dos privadas, además de los alumnos que vienen a través de sus familias.

Ways to Develop Potential and Talent: 28 years of experience at CEDET (Brazil)

Conexão Brasil // República Tcheca!

Acabamos de receber as respostas às cartas que alguns alunos do CEDET mandaram para a República Tcheca!

As cartas foram enviadas para o Bunkr < www.bunkr.cz >, uma organização social tcheca da cidade de Trinec, a qual recebeu dois voluntários da ASPAT em intercâmbio no passado. Ainda hoje mantemos muitos vínculos de amizade com eles!

Durante uma atividade grupal de Inglês, pedimos a alguns alunos para escrever sobre o Brasil e perguntar coisas que gostariam de saber sobre a República Tcheca, de modo que jovens de suas idades pudessem responder.

As cartas ainda estão fechadas, vamos abri-las com os alunos em fevereiro, assim que voltarmos das férias.

Até breve!

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We have just received the answers to the letters that some CEDET students sent to the Czech Republic! The letters were sent to Bunkr, a Czech social organization in the city of Trinec, which received two ASPAT volunteers in exchange in the past. We still have many friendships with them today! During a English activity at CEDET, we asked some students to write about Brazil and ask questions they would like to know about the Czech Republic, so that children and teenagers could answer. The letters are still closed, we will open them with the students in February, as soon as we get back from vacation. See you soon!

Visitas internacionais

Ao longo de nossa história, recebemos centenas de visitantes de diversos lugares do Brasil e de 30 países do mundo (e contando). 

1. Alemanha
2. Argentina
3. Bulgária
4. Camarões
5. Canadá
6. Chile
7. Colômbia
8. Congo-Kinshasa
9. Costa Rica
10. Cuba
11. Equador
12. Eslováquia
13. Espanha
14. Estados Unidos
15. França
16. Gana
17. Itália
18. Jamaica
19. Holanda
20. Honduras
21. Letônia
22. México
23. Moçambique
24. Noruega
25. Peru
26. Polônia
27. Portugal
28. Reino Unido
29. Uruguai
30. Venezuela