Helga Thieroff

Helga Thieroff (born February 2, 1952 ) is a German psychologist and director of the Neuwied Children's College .

Life

Thieroff studied education at the University of Education in Bayreuth , then psychology and general linguistics at the Technical University of Berlin , where she was initially employed as a tutor and teacher for special tasks. In 1989 she founded a first preschool project for gifted children in Berlin. From this project, the first “children's club” for gifted preschool children emerged . Since moving to Rhineland-Palatinate, Thieroff has run a specialist psychological and educational practice for gifted children; In 2000 she founded the Children's College in Neuwied (center for talented students in Rhineland-Palatinate), which she has been running ever since.

Children's College Neuwied

The Children's College in Neuwied is an extracurricular support facility for gifted children. In weekend courses, children receive intellectual and emotional offers in addition to school and kindergarten. Currently (2013) the Children's College offers around 80 courses with around 40 employees, which are attended every six months by 600 to 800 course participants between the ages of three and 16 every 14 days (always on Saturdays).

The main focus of the work is the early support of gifted kindergarten children and young school children with learning opportunities in the areas of language, science, mathematics, letters and numbers, English, handicrafts, theater, art, cooking, electrical engineering and biology. Schoolchildren up to the age of 16 are offered a range of different courses in the college that cover the spectrum of mathematics and science, (foreign) language, humanities and social sciences. The children's college is financed - in addition to funding from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and donations - mainly through parental contributions for the support courses. Scholarships are offered for gifted children from socially disadvantaged families. In 2011, the Neuwied Children's College was awarded the “Selected Location 2011” prize in the “ 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas ” competition, which is carried out by the “Germany - Land of Ideas” initiative in cooperation with Deutsche Bank .

Awards

In 2011 she received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Publications (selection)

• Helga Thieroff: Foreigners with us. District work in Schöneberg u. More. In: Local 2000 . Reinbek b. Hamburg, Rowohlt 1883, pp. 214-221
• Helga Thieroff: Linguistic analysis of film retellings by German and Turkish students In: Learn German , 11th year (1985), no. 4, pp. 32–70
• Helga Thieroff & Dagmar Bergs-Winkels: Enriching program for gifted children . In: Individual support: Developing talents - developing personality. Edited by Christian Fischer, Franz J. Mönks, Ursel Westphal. Lit Verlag 2008 ISBN 9783825811808
• On the pain of giftedness - my son who was different. Narrated and viewed theoretically. Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-643-13502-5

Individual evidence

1. ^ Administrator: Helga Thieroff MA In: www.kinder-college.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 . 
2. ^ Practice Thieroff. In: www.praxis-thieroff.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 . 
3. ^ Website of the Neuwied Children's College
4. ↑ Homepage of www.kinder-college.de. In: www.kinder-college.de. Retrieved April 19, 2016 . 
5. ^ Action day for gifted people March 23, 2011 - Kinder College Neuwied is “Selected Location 2011” - Presse-Artikel.org. (No longer available online.) In: www.presse-artikel.org. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016 ; Retrieved April 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.