8.00 – 8.50

Bishop Centre

Registration

9.00 – 9.15

Official opening address by Steve Miller, Regional Director

9.15-10.15

Keynote Address: Eddie Braggett: Lessons from Gifted Education over the past 20 years.

10.15-10.30

Housekeeping

10.30-11.00

MORNING TEA

11.05-12.00

Room

Concurrent Sessions

1.

E23

Lyne Megarrity: Understanding Responsible Citizenship

2.

F21 and pond

Ross & Bernadette Craig and Neville Simpson (2hr session) Maths in the Environment

3.

F20

Tricia Becker: The challenge of meeting the needs of gifted children in the regular class.

4.

E24

Ros Roodveldt (2 hr session): Thinking today with Bloom and Multiple Intelligences for changing tomorrow.

12.05-1.00

Room

Concurrent Sessions

1.

F20

Ian Putt: Using the web for open-ended problem solving

2.

F21 and pond

Ross & Bernadette Craig and Neville Simpson (2hr session)...Continued

3.

E23

Liz Jorgensen & Coral Swan: Bubble Up and Over

4.

E24

Ros Roodveldt (2hr session) ....Continued

1.00-2.00

LUNCH

2.00-3.00

Bishop Centre

Keynote Address: Bruce Knight: The Development of Gifted Students’ Literacy Skills: Implications for Tomorrow’s Classroom

3.05-4.00

Room

Concurrent Sessions

1.

F22

Eddie Braggett: The role of the school Executive in providing for G&T St.udents

2.

E23

Althea McLean: Using Open-ended Software in the Classroom.

3.

F20

Parents’ Workshop: (Anne Mauger): Developing Constructive Partnerships.

4.

E24

Michelle Voisey : Technology and Gifted Students

5.

Bishop Centre

Judith Hewton: Springboard to Achievement: Movements as the key to learning.

4.00-4.30

F20

Networking: Formation of the new Cairns Branch of QAGTC