Course Description
Throughout this course participants will develop knowledge in relation to Giftedness. On completion participants will have a well developed understanding of Giftedness, enabling them to better support Gifted students in their settings.
The course will cover the following:
- What is Giftedness?
- Who is Gifted?
- What traits or behaviours might you see in young Gifted children?
- Overexcitabilities
- Twice exceptionality (2E)
- Assessment and identification
- Parent voice
- Childs voice
- Strategies
- What does it really mean to be Gifted?
- Where to from here?
Audience
Early Childhood Educators and Primary Teachers.
Teaching Standards
1.2.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Understand how students learn: Structure teaching programs using research and collegial advice about how students learn,
1.5.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities: Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities,
4.1.2 Proficient Level - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments - Support student participation: Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities,
7.4.2 Proficient Level - Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community - Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities: Participate in professional and community networks and forums to broaden knowledge and improve practice