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Three Years of Hope Refocusing the Curriculum for Gifted and Despair: Learners Glongney@barker.nsw.edu.au @geelong71 Your thoughts on giftedness 1. The educational needs of gifted students are too often ignored in schools 2. More gifted

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Three Years of Hope and Despair:

Refocusing the Curriculum for Gifted Learners

Glongney@barker.nsw.edu.au @geelong71
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Your thoughts on giftedness…

  • 1. The educational needs of gifted students are too often ignored in

schools

  • 2. More gifted students should be allowed to skip a grade
  • 3. Children who skip a grade are usually pressured to do so by their

parents

  • 4. Special programs for the gifted have the drawback of creating

elitism

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The Gifted Education Landscape in Australia

No Federal provision for gifted education No mandatory training for beginning teachers Possible to undertake a teaching career without any thought of the needs of gifted students

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‘There is no consistent approach to the education

  • f gifted students across Australia’
  • Victorian Parliament 2012 cited in Walsh and Jolly

‘At best, the Australian approach to gifted education

could be characterized as ‘ad hoc’ - Walsh and Jolly

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2017: What did I discover?

Optional extras & excursions Lack of appropriate challenge Students who were overlooked Misconceptions Little evidence of differentiation

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What have we done? Mentoring Acceleration Staff Training Ability Grouping Assessment

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Hope #1 MENTORING

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Hope #2 ACCELERATION

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Hope #3 Teacher Training and Action Research

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Hope #4 Use of Data and Ability Grouping

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Hope #4 Use of Data and Ability Grouping

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Hope #5 Rethinking Assessment

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But…

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Despair #1 The Flood Gates Argument

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Despair #2 The ‘I was a smart kid and I never got any special treatment’ argument.

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Despair #3 The Elitism Argument

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Your thoughts on giftedness…

  • 1. The educational needs of gifted students are too often ignored in

schools

  • 2. More gifted students should be allowed to skip a grade
  • 3. Children who skip a grade are usually pressured to do so by their

parents

  • 4. Special programs for the gifted have the drawback of creating

elitism

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The specific educational needs of the gifted are too

  • ften ignored in schools
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A greater number of gifted children should be allowed to skip a grade

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Children who skip a grade are usually pressured to do so by their parents

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Special programs for the gifted have the drawback of creating elitism

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When the gifted are put in special classes, other children feel devalued

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Most children who skip a grade have difficulties in their social adjustment to a group of older students

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Children with learning difficulties have the most need of special educational services

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Gifted Children are often bored in school

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The gifted need special attention in order to fully develop their talents

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The Changing Landscape

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The Changing Landscape

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Three Years of Hope and Despair:

Refocusing the Curriculum for Gifted Learners

Glongney@barker.nsw.edu.au @geelong71