Sunday 25th March 2007
8:15 - 8:45 Registration -
8:50 - 9:10 Auditorium

Welcoming Address -
Peter Andrews, Chief Scientist of Queensland

9:15 - 10:10 Auditorium

"I don't want to be a stupid girl": Images of Giftedness in Popular Culture
Wilma Vialle

10:15 - 10:55 40 min seminars
  R1

Integrated Studies
Nicole Bowers

  R2

Identifying Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
Matthew Capp

  R3

Blind or Just Blinkered?
Jennifer Parker

  R4

None so Blind: What/why acceleration?
Judith Hewton and Robyn MalaxEtxebarria

11:00 - 11:25 Morning Tea and Trade Displays
11:30 - 12:20 Auditorium

Creating Creative Kids
Jen McVeity

12:25 - 1:05 40 min seminars
  Auditorium

Bringing up a Gifted Child
Anthony, Susan and Benjamin Stevens

  R1

Drama Clubs: Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence in practice
Fiona Torzsa

  R2

Queensland Academies
Tracy Corsby, Stephen Loggie and John Jose

  R3

Meeting the Needs of Individual Learners
Suzanne Hall

  R4

Drumming Up some Creative Writing PART ONE
Margaret Bishop

1:05 - 1:55 LUNCH and Trade Displays
2:00 - 2:40 80 min workshops
  Auditorium

Happiness: Seeing clearly with the heart
Michele Juratowitch

  R1

Uncovering and Discovering Gifts: Curriculum compacting
Annette Smith

  R2

Distance Education for Primary Extension
Lisa De Leon and John Kennedy

  R3

Robotics in the Classroom
Damien Kee

  R4

Drumming Up some Creative Writing PART TWO
Margaret Bishop

2:45 - 4:05 80 min workshops
  Auditorium

Coming to Terms with Dual Exceptionality
Wilma Vialle

  R1

Making Gifted Programs Happen
Lesley Sutherland

  R2

Tournament of Minds for Educators
Tracey Lenarduzzi and Kathy Underhill

  R3

A Room with a View: The Differentiated Classroom Observation Scale
Gail Young

  R4

Think! Damn It!
Margaret Bishop

4:10 - 4:30 Auditorium Closing Session - Closure and Reflections
3-4 July 2007
29-30 August 2007
Children's Conference at Jambooree Heights State School
QAGTC 2007 Regional Conference at Emerald