Tina Refning
ECHA Specialist in Gifted Education
Kerteminde, Denmark
Since 2002 I have been a passionate advocate for gifted children - both concerning their educational (mis)placement in the Danish school system as well as their emotional needs.
The work with the gifted has included:
- Conference manager for the 21st World Conference on Gifted and Talented Children (2012-2015)
- Principal at Mentiqa Odense - private school for gifted children (2008-2011)
- Founder of and first chairman of Denmark's national Gifted Children Association (2005-2006)
- Gifted children coordinator for Mensa Denmark (2002-2008).
Since 2012 I have also been a yoga teacher and have found my knowledge about differentiated instruction to be very useful when teaching yoga to adults.
In 2023 I am at least partially on a break and investing my time in a Masters in Clinical Psychology.
- Contributions at Talent Education 2026
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Developing policies in Gifted Education: Denmark as examplePaperWhen studying international trends in policies for gifted education it becomes clear researches have similar findings and that challenges concerning the education gifted students seem to be universal. In this keynote findings from an exploratory study of articles from 13 countries across six continents have been transformed from conclusions about … More