PRACTITIONER TRAINING
For whom?
Working with the World Game is bound to a license. Het World Game Practitioner training is meant for educational and health professionals who have experience in guiding, researching and/or diagnosing children and/or adults. This training entitles you to purchase the World Game and allows you to work with it.
Unique
Working with the World Game is enriching and proves time and again to be effective in non-speaking children, language problems or children with a fear of failure. Learning to understand the magic of the World Game requires a lof of experience in observation and lifelong learning. Every child is unique, therefore every World Game village is unique.
Within a few minutes gain insight into the following aspects:
The cognitive aspect (intelligence): how does the child explore their world?
The affective aspect (social/emotional): how does the child experience their world?
The pedagogical aspect (education/learning strategies): how does the child handle their world?
Giftedness: how does the child process knowledge and new information?
New aspect giftedness
With the help of Johnnie Rasmussen and Grith Tschorn (from the Gifted Institute DK) and professor Evelyn Kroesbergen (Radboud University – Nijmegen) an observation list for giftedness has been developed and is being tested.
This rubric can be used as a supplement to the non-verbal identification of cognitive abilities in situations regular IQ tests due to communication or cultural problems cannot be taken.
The program
The World Game Practitioner training includes 2 days with a period (or day) of practice with the material in between.
Note: a training on your location covers 3 days, with the second day being the practice day. You then arrange children to come building that day.
Day 1
Learn the theory and scientific background of the World Game
Learn to identify social and emotional aspects in the World Game
Learn to identify learning strategies (visual/verbal thinking) in the World Game
Build you own village and experience the material yourself
Learn how to observe and fill in the form
Including the World Game material, the official manual and form (digital)In the following period (or day) you will practice by conducting the test and observe several children building a village.
Day 2
Learn to identify the cognition abilities in the World Game
Learn to identify giftedness in the World Game with the rubric
Evaluation and certification
License World Game Practitioner for the duration of the license year
License
The successful completion of the training entitles you to the license `World Game Practitioner` until the next July 31st.
This license gives you the right to: affiliation with the international `World Game Practitioner` Group using the official logo with year indication `World Game Practitioner` on your website.be listed with name, place and contact details on the website www.the-worldgame.com receiving the private World Game Practitioner Newsletter A license year runs from August 1 to July 31 of the following calendar year. Every year on August 1 the license archive will be updated. Renewal of this license is optional and is done by paying € 175,- before July 15. The invoice will be sent in June by email. If you do not renew your license, you will be deregistered from our database and lose the license rights as described above. You still can work with the World Game of course, but you are no longer affiliated and involved in new developments and will also not receive a new year logo to carry. On locationWe offer the Practitioner World Game training also on location by means of a free quote. Send us an email with your location, the number of participants and possible dates: info@the-worldgame.com Training Practitioner World Game Athens, October 27-29, 2023We are pleased to announce that, following the Gifted World Conference in Athens in October, we will be hosting the Practitioner World Game training in Athens, Greece for a small group of professionals. Date: October 27, 28, 29 Location: Center of the Advancement-Noesis, AthensTime: 10.00 – 16.30 Early bird price: € 1.750,- (no VAT) when registered before June 1, 2023Normal price: 2.000,- (no VAT)Including: the World Game, the official manual and (digital) form, authority to purchase and work with the World Game, License Practitioner World Game until the next July 31st RegistrationRegistration for the training in Athens can be done via the link (see below) and filling in the official registration form.
Your competences and experience will be examined by means of a resume (cv) screening, after which any admission will be confirmed. If so, you then will receive all information and the invoice that must be paid prior to the training. Payment is confirmation of participation. There is only room for a limited number of participants.
Cancellation
In case you cancel up to 30 days before the start of the training, no costs will be charged.
In case you cancel within 14 days before the start of the training € 100,- administration costs will be charged.
In case you cancel within 7 days before the start of the training, no refund is possible. For more information or a free quote for a training at you location: info@the-worldgame.com The World Game is registered and owned by Instituut Kind in Beeld, Bosstraat 107, 1731 SC Winkel – The Netherlands. Instituut Kind in Beeld is registered by the Dutch Government/CRKBO and is therefore exempt from VAT.