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 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
No Federal provision for gifted education The Gifted Education No mandatory training for Landscape in beginning teachers Australia Possible to undertake a teaching career without any thought of the needs of gifted students
‘There is no consistent approach to the education of 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
Optional extras & excursions Lack of appropriate challenge 2017: What Students who were overlooked did I discover? Misconceptions Little evidence of differentiation
Mentoring Acceleration What have we Staff Training done? Ability Grouping Assessment
Hope #1 MENTORING
Hope #2 ACCELERATION
Hope #3 Teacher Training and Action Research
Hope #4 Use of Data and Ability Grouping
Hope #4 Use of Data and Ability Grouping
Hope #5 Rethinking Assessment
But…
Despair #1 The Flood Gates Argument
Despair #2 The ‘I was a smart kid and I never got any special treatment’ argument.
Despair #3 The Elitism Argument
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
The specific educational needs of the gifted are too often ignored in schools
A greater number of gifted children should be allowed to skip a grade
Children who skip a grade are usually pressured to do so by their parents
Special programs for the gifted have the drawback of creating elitism
When the gifted are put in special classes, other children feel devalued
Most children who skip a grade have difficulties in their social adjustment to a group of older students
Children with learning difficulties have the most need of special educational services
Gifted Children are often bored in school
The gifted need special attention in order to fully develop their talents
The Changing Landscape
The Changing Landscape
https://www.cese.nsw.gov.au/publications-filter/revisiting-gifted-education
Three Years of Hope Refocusing the Curriculum for Gifted and Despair: Learners Glongney@barker.nsw.edu.au @geelong71
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