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"Children with Gifts and Talents: 10% blindness or an optical illusion?"
Featuring key national and international speakers:
Roger Moltzen
Professor Roger Moltzen is Foundation Chair of the Department of Human Development
and Counselling at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
He has a particular interest in developing talent across the lifespan.
Wilma Vialle
Director of Graduate Teaching, Faculty of Education, and Associate Professor of
Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong,
Wilma is the 2006 Eminent Australian Award recipient in the field of gifted education:
Pink or Paris? Gifted and Asperger's.
Jen McVeity
A Churchill Fellow, 2006 Literacy Champion, international speaker and author of 23 books,
Jen created the renowned
Seven Steps to Writing Success program and will also
address Creating Creative Kids - practical techniques to enhance and advance creativity in gifted writers and illustrators.
Those of us lucky enough to have 20/20 eyesight can read the 20 size letters on the vision chart standing 20 feet away. (In metric, the standard is 6 metres and it's called 6/6 vision.)
But vision implies deriving meaning from what is seen. We need to develop our skills of analysing and interpreting information and responding appropriately when we look at children who may be gifted. With 10% of the population approximating those with all kinds of gifts and talents (80 000 in Queensland schools alone), we need to add vision by addressing vigorously the questions of:
Who are the gifted children?
How do we identify them?
What are their educational, social and emotional needs?
How do we cater effectively for them at school, at home and in the community?
Whether you have 20/20 vision or a blind spot when it comes to recognising and supporting giftedness, the 16th state conference of the Queensland Association for Gifted and Talented Children Inc. offers lenses through which we can improve our vision of the field and also help others to do so by sharing best practice. Don't be a 20/200 (legally blind) when it comes to identifying and catering for gifted children!
Venue:
Mt Maria College, Mitchelton Campus, Brisbane
For further information
Email:
conference@qagtc.org.au
Website:
www.qagtc.org.au/conf2007/
Telephone: (07) 3352 4288 Fax: (07) 3352 4388
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