Roger is Director of Graduate Special
Education Programmes at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is a
former teacher and principal, with teaching and research interests in special
education and gifted education. Roger is a professional adviser to the
New Zealand Associations of Gifted Children and a New Zealand delegate
to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.
George Mastroyanis - University of Alaska, USA
Dr. George Mastroyanis, an associate
professor of Education, has studied and taught in Europe, Africa and U.S.A.
and currently teaches courses, graduate and undergraduate in Philosophy
of Education, Introduction to Education as well as graduate classes in
Gifted Education. George has taught gifted children K - 6 in two
states for seven years, as well as being involved in serving the needs
of parents and gifted children out of school. New area of interest that
is emerging is serving teachers in rural Alaska, as the courses offered
at University of Alaska, Anchorage, is the only way teachers can be qualified
to serve gifted children in the state. He believes that all education should
be excellent and relevant to enable children to grow.
Paule Eckhaus - Psychologist, Melbourne
Paule Eckhaus is a director
of "Skills Education Centre" and a psychologist in private practice which
specialises in the problems of children and families and focuses on the
diagnosis and teaching of appropriate skills. Much of her practice
is devoted to resolving issues generated by differences of communication
and temprament styles, the assessment and development of children and the
design of intervention programs. Her speciality involves dealing
with issues of gifted children as well as helping parents deal with the
challenges of parenting both gifted and non-gifted children.
Kay Senzee - Salt Lake City, USA
Kay is a multi-award winning teacher,
certified trainer in brain research and curriculum differentiation skills,
university lecturer and with many years of teaching experience at the secondary
and primary levels. Kay is widely sought after as a consultant and
has presented at national conferences in the USA.
Mary Sohn - Salt Lake City, USA
Mary is an award-winning teacher
who currently teaahes a class of gifted children in the Granite City School
District in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Mary also teaches university
classes, presents at a national level, and is a certified trainer in brain
research and curricuum differentiation. Most of her teaching experience
is in the primary area.
Bruce Knight-
Central Queensland University, Mackay
Dr Bruce Knight is Head of the Faculty
of Education and Creative Atrs at Central Queensland University – Mackay.
He has extensive teaching experience in primary and special education settings.
He has been involved in identifying, programming for and teaching gifted
students, as well as conducting workshops and seminars for teachers and
parents of gifted children. He has authored/coauthored four books and written
more than 40 articles in scholarly journals. His current research interests
include gifted students’ perceptions of learning experiences in the regular
classroom, reading and comprehension processes and students’ use of metacognitive
strategies.
Tony Ryan
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Educational Consultant, Brisbane
Tony Ryan is a professional speaker,
author and publisher. In the past fifteen years her has been manager of
a training and publishing company – Head First – and has consulted to educational
and other professional bodies throughout the world on effective thinking
and learning. He is the author of many educational books and has presented
at state, Australian and World conferences on issues such as gifted and
talented education, change management and life-long learning.
Convivium speaker -
Ken Imison - Chair Queensland
Board of Senior Secondary School Studies
The programme contains over 40 workshops
and seminars with special interest for curriculum planners, classroom teachers,
students of gifted education, parents policy makers and any person interested
in the education and well being of gifted children. A number of presentations
will address how various schools are catering for gifted education, other
contributions will address specific issues of importance.
5 February 1999 j.watters@qut.edu.au