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MENSA - NTC SYSTEM OF LEARNING
1st part - preschool period
On the international test on general knowledge (for high-schools), Serbia was on the place number 41 out of 57 countries. The results have shown that reproductive knowledge is good, while operational knowledge (scientific knowledge) is very low. It is a fact that the most important period for perceiving abstraction and the initialization of operational thinking is a period between three and seven years of life, and it may be extracted to the age of twelve. In that period, concerning stimulation of this important part for thinking, children are little worked with or not at all.

Mensa is an organization which gathers people with high IQs (IQ is over 148) and the main target is researching intelligence and its employment for the good of all people in the community. Within Mensa, there is a SIG for the gifted called NTC. For years, it researches how to improve intellectual abilities. The author of this program, Ranko Rajovic PhD, is a long-term member of the four-member committee of the International Mensa for gifted children. He made a team of experts in the field of pedagogy, neurophysiology, defectology, psychology and genetics. Together, they made efficient and simple program which has an option of continuous assessment and evaluation. The advantage of this kind of concept is its application to preschool children (aged between 3 and 7), just as stimulation of the development of intellectual abilities of each child. Just the fact that human brain develops over 50% of its capacity up to the age of five should be a reason enough to start with the application of specialized programs as early as possible. It is the responsibility of the society, local community and each parent not to miss this extremely important period in life and to support the development of biological potentials of each child to its maximum.

The application of Mensa-NTC system of learning provides:

• IQ of all the children in the program is risen;
• Any kind of concentration disturbia or attention shortage is prevented; dyslexia that might appear later in school is prevented likewise;
• Coordination of movements and motor function are developed;
• The speed of thinking and making conclusions are developed (functional knowledge);
• All the children are at advantage in this program and it is especially useful for detecting gifted children and for improving their talents;
• Neuron's network is thicker which, if accompanied by specific exercises, enlarges brain capacity for processing information.  

METHODOLOGY OF MENSA NTC SYSTEM OF LEARNING

• The development of accommodation-stimulation of the development of eye muscles
• Chosen games with balls
• Games of skipping
• The development of movements coordination and motor functions
• Games of rotation
• Games of skipping
• Games of pulling through
• Workshops for subtle motor functions
• The development of speed of thinking and making conclusions 

REPRODUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE

• Learning of abstract symbols (flags, traffic signs...)

FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE

• Connecting abstract symbols - 1st level
• Connecting abstract symbols and logic - 2nd level 
• Method of combining abstract thought and music - 3rd level

Contact on the authors and further reading about the method is available here.