Prof. Dr. Najla Abbas al-Zuhairi, a faculty member from the Theoretical Sciences Branch at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Women, has delivered three lectures for the doctoral students, in cooperation and coordination with Prof. Dr. Islam Ghallab, Head of the Department of Sports Management and the Faculty of Physical Education at Menoufia University in Egypt, Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmed Majid Hijazi, and Prof. Dr. Haider Salman Muhsin from the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Karbala.
Dr. Islam Ghallab delivered the first lecture entitled (Management of gifted classes and programs for preparing gifted teachers), indicating the role of the teacher in caring for gifted students, the most important tasks that the teacher must provide to contribute to their care, the steps of managing gifted classes, indicators and principles of talent management, elements of talent management by gifted teachers, elements of talent management strategy, training the gifted student’s teacher within the gifted care program, the most important competencies that must be possessed by the gifted student teacher, as well as knowing the most important characteristics and professional competencies of the gifted teacher.
Then Ahmed Majed Hijazi delivered the second lecture entitled (Teaching Methods for Talented Athletes), explaining the concept of talented athletes, the history of talent discovery, its types in terms of public and private talent, in addition to its classifications according to Dunlop’s Classification by Class of outstanding students into three levels, namely the excellent, outstanding and very superior categories, as well as a review of the criteria for discovering and nurturing talented people. While Dr. Haider Salman delivered the third lecture entitled (Methods of Detecting the Gifted), in which he reviewed the concept of talent, the most important methods and tools for detecting the gifted, primary sources for identifying the gifted, objective methods of measuring talent, methods of measuring general mental ability, methods of measuring general achievement ability, methods of measuring creative ability, methods of measuring personal and mental traits, appreciation scales in addition to the subjective methods of measuring talents.
