“Explora”: atender a los alumnos con más curiosidad, motivación o capacidad sin excluir a nadie

In the academic year 2014/2015, the Education Department of the Government of La Rioja launched in eight schools in this region, on an experimental basis, the program “Explora” for the attention to students with high intellectual capacity. Both face-to-face and online workshops were planned. The implementation of face-to-face workshops (goals, contents, activities, student selection, sessions, etc.) was designed by the own educational centers in a traditional way. However, the four online workshops (maths, language, computing, and emotional intelligence) were developed following the Sports Approach by Joan Freeman. This paper shows the foundation, development, and evaluation of these online workshops. A qualitative and quantitative evaluation was carried out, with very encouraging results: big acceptance of the program by participants was confirmed along with the program appropriateness for the selection of students with high intellectual capacity.