by Deb Walker Drawing from my teaching experiences in New Zealand, Canada, and the UK, it's clear to me that educators in Aotearoa New Zealand stand...
Gifted
No, I do not support “streaming”
One of the most accessed courses on my Conscious Inclusion Bundle is “Mixed Ability Grouping for High Ability Kids” and there is good reason for...
Getting the Paperwork right: An Acceleration Policy
Acceleration, grade-skipping, dual enrolment, jumping, skipping…Whichever name it is called, it is an effective provision for gifted students. And...
Getting the Paperwork right: A Gifted Policy
This post has been adapted from an original article in NZAGC Tall Poppies Magazine in November 2016. Like most aspects of education, there are...
Battling Anxiety
Guest blog by Vanessa White As Alanis Morissette sang (and yes, I’m aware this is showing my age), “it’s a little ironic, don’t you think”, that in...
In every school, in every class: Providing catalysts for the gifted learner
Our gifted students deserve the right to be engaged in their learning As schools get ready to return to (hopefully) a year without lockdowns, it is...
Gifted ACT – for the 2020 Gifted Awareness Week Blogtour
When the theme of Gifted Awareness Week 2020 was set, there really was no inkling as to how important the theme of Gifted Wellbeing would be. 2020...
It takes ONE … Catalysts of Gifted Success
In December last year, I was asked to write a letter to a gifted young woman as part of ’21 letters’ to celebrate her 21st birthday. When I sat down...
The so what? Increasing learner agency based on student voice data
Giving students choices is an excellent start towards meaningful student agency and this small change can begin to improve the quality of teaching...
Having their say: Collecting gifted voice through focus groups
In the first of these articles on student voice, I mentioned that often “your intent does not equal your impact”. This is a frequent occurrence in...