Presentations


Reading Beyond
Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell
Seminar
Ad Astra: Differentiation across a K-12 school
Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell
Seminar
Topping up your Think Tank: Strategies for Critical and Creative Thinking
Margaret Bishop
Workshop
Important Issues in Assessment of the Gifted
Tony Burton
Workshop
Pedagogical Strategies for Visual-spatial Learners
Matthew J. Capp
Seminar
Linking Investigative Science, Differentiation of Learning and Primary Connections
Cheryl Capra
Workshop
Invited
Implementing Gifted Programs
Ailsa Crockett & Lesley Sutherland
Workshop
Could Gifted Children be extended by developing Critical Thinking in early primary schooling?
Kay Distel
Workshop
Using Technology to engage Gifted Students
Karen Edwards, Peter McGrath & Ruth West
Workshop/Panel
Developing Critical and Higher Order Skills through the Holocaust
Kylie Foot & Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell
Seminar
You've got to Reach Them to Teach Them: Identifying giftedness in achievers and non-achievers at home and school
Angela Foulds-Cook
Seminar
From Research to Practice: Closing the gap between research findings and teacher practice on acceleration and ability grouping
Selena Gallagher
Seminar
Dancing the Margins and Darting among Shadows
Michele Juratowitch
Seminar
E I E I …O: Factors in underachievement
Michele Juratowitch
Seminar
Robotics in the Classroom
Damien Kee
Workshop
The Road to Differentiation: A practical insight into sustainable school-wide change
Bev Langbein & Hazel Wilton
Seminar
Tournament of Minds: Opportunities for excellence
Tracey Lenarduzzi & Kathy Underhill
Workshop
Underachievement and Disadvantage
Peter Merrotsy
Keynote
Creative Problem Solving
Peter Merrotsy
Workshop
Communication, Problem Solving and Creativity: The Opti-MINDS Challenge Experience
Fiona Meyer
Workshop
BRAINways Expeditions of Discovery: A solution to the current dilemma in gifted education
Mirella Olivier
Seminar
Gifted Education Morsels: A GEM of an idea
Bronwyn Olsson & Robyn Yared
Workshop
Eeny Meeny Miney Moe: Making life choices count for your gifted child
Andrew Pegler & Mary Killeen
Seminar
DIY Learning: Teaching Multi-Literacies to Autonomous Learners
Toni Riordan
Workshop
Is it play, then?
Glenda Seymour
Workshop
Making Acceleration Work
Susan Stevens
Seminar
Our Future: Our Gifted Students
Lesley Sutherland
Joint Plenary
Invited
Channelling Emotional Sensitivity in response to World Issues: From difference to making a difference
Jodie Valpied
Seminar
Special Guest
OK to be Gifted, OK to be Introverted: Even more than OK when valued and nurtured
Jodie Valpied
Joint Plenary
Special Guest
Building a School Culture of Personal Best
Sue Vasilevska
Joint Plenary
Invited
Acceleration: For and against
Sue Vasilevska
Seminar
Invited
Catering for Gifted Students with Learning Difficulties in the Classroom: We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails
Kylie Wallis & Chris Sawrey
Workshop
Educational, Social and Emotional needs of Gifted Students in their Transitions in School
Diana Whitton
Keynote
Creativity with Responsibility
Diana Whitton
Workshop
Understanding a Paradox: Uncovering the potential of gifted students with a reading disability
Janelle Wills
Seminar
Striving for Excellence: A whole-school approach at Holland Park State School
Gail Young & Neil Adams
Workshop