Location: Istanbul / Level: Bachelor / Duration: 4 Years / Language of Instruction: Turkish / Mode of Study: Full Time, On-Site / Tuition Fee: USD 4.000 / Discounted Fee: USD 3.550

The vision of our program is to contribute for the realization of gifted and talented individuals’ potential to the benefit of our country and humankind by training teachers for gifted and talented students who can think critically, who are open to innovations, who are creative, who have moral values and high motivation.

Rationale of Differentiated Program:
Each individual must have equal educational opportunities. This makes one of the basic human rights; but at this point it should be made clear that equal opportunity does not mean the same opportunity. This equal opportunity means to emphasize the equality of meeting the educational needs of students, because gifted students have different educational and instructional needs, and therefore, they are in need of a differentiated program. Although the contribution to society in all areas of human endeavor comes in large proportions from gifted population, the number of teachers trained to educate such students is very scarce. Therefore, the meeting of the educational needs of this kind of students gets very difficult. Especially, this is very important for the gifted elementary students attending the first five grades, because the low motivation caused by the unmet educational and instructional needs may negatively influence the whole learning lives of these students and may cause them to face the danger of not being successful according to their potentials.