Sunday 16 March 2008
8:15 - 8:50 Registration - Executive Services Building
8:55 - 10:00 Lecture Theatre

Keynote address: - Educational, Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Students in their Transitions in School
Diana Whitton

10:05 - 11:00 Lecture Theatre

OK to be Gifted, OK to be Introverted
Jodie Valpied Guest Speaker

  EST01

Building a School Culture of Personal Best
Sue Vasilevska Guest Speaker

  EST02

Our Future: Our Gifted Students
Lesley Sutherland Guest Speaker

11:00 - 11:25 Morning Tea and Trade Displays Refectory and Courtyard
11:30 - 12:55 80 min seminars and workshops
  Lecture Theatre
 
 
12.15-12.55

Understanding a Paradox: Gifted students with a reading disability
Janelle Wills

You've got to Reach Them to Teach Them
Angela Foulds-Cook

  EST01

Creativity with Responsibility
Diana Whitton

  EST02

Creative Problem Solving
Peter Merrotsy

  DST1

Is it play, then?
Glenda Seymour

  DST3

Could Gifted Children be extended by developing Critical Thinking in early primary schooling?
Kay Distel

12:55 - 1:55 LUNCH and Trade Displays QAGTC Meeting with Branch Presidents
2:00 - 2:40 80 min workshops
  Lecture Theatre

From Research to Practice: Closing the gap between research findings and teacher practice on acceleration and ability grouping
Selena Gallagher

  EST01

E I E I …O: Factors in underachievement
Michele Juratowitch

  EST02

"Eeny Meeny Miney Moe": Making life choices count for your gifted child
Andrew Pegler & Mary Killeen

  DST1

Pedagogical Strategies for Visual-spatial Learners
Matthew Capp

2:45 - 4:05 80 min workshops
  Lecture Theatre

Using Technology to engage Gifted Students
Karen Edwards, Peter McGrath and Ruth West

  EST01

Robotics in the Classroom
Damien Kee

  EST02

Gifted Education Morsels: A GEM of an idea
Bronwyn Olsson and Robyn Yared

  DST1

Communication, Problem Solving and Creativity
Fiona Meyer

  DST3

DIY Learning: Teaching Multi-Literacies to Autonomous Learners
Toni Riordan

4:10 - 4:30 Lecture Theatre Closing Session - Closure and Reflections
8-9 July 2008 QAGTC Children's Conference at Clayfield College