AGATEVic Professional Learning for Educators of the Gifted, Talented and Creative Students
Association for Gifted and Talented Education Victoria
Presentation: What do teachers believe and do to foster creativity in the classroom?
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 6 – 7pm. Followed by time for questions
Venue: Faculty of Education, Monash University, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton-Level 2-243 Meeting Room.
Presenter: Ann Robinson, PhD, is Professor of Educational Psychology and Founding Director of the Jodie Mahony Center for Gifted Education at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock. She is past president of the U.S.A. National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), a former editor of the Gifted Child Quarterly, and has been honored by NAGC as Early Scholar, Early Leader, Distinguished Scholar and for Distinguished Service to the association.
Gifted Awareness Week (17-24 March 2019)
AGATEVic, together with the VAGTC, will be holding a community of inquiry for students to mark Gifted Awareness Week. This will be held in term 2 at a date to be announced. For further information contact Susan Knopfelmacher.
Flexible Learning Unit - Talent Development and Diversity
Date: Thursday, March 7- May 30, 6pm.
Venue: Faculty of Education, Monash University on campus and online, at Clayton campus.
Presenter: Dr Leonie Kronborg
Master's of Education flexible learning unit for semester 1, will be taught by Dr Leonie Kronborg to Master's of Education students.
Panel Presentations – Research about highly able students: Implications for educators.
Date: Wednesday May 15, 2019 - 6.30 pm.
Venue: Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Seminar Room. No onsite parking, but street parking available.
In these lightning talks, researchers in gifted education will provide key research findings for classroom practitioners. 4 minutes will be spent on each topic. There will be time afterwards for questions and opportunities to speak with individual researchers.
§ Dr Anne Grant - How do we identify young highly able children in pre school and early years of education.
§ Dr Leonie Kronborg - What are the best instructional strategies for teachers of highly able children? What does the research tell us?
§ Liz Kelly - Emotional competence and gifted students.
§ Susan Knopfelmacher - The identification of highly able children from a secondary school perspective.
§ Claudia Cornejo - Chilean psychologist, PhD student, Monash University. Identification of the characteristics of inspiring teachers as identified by able secondary students.
§ Dr Susan Wade - Highly able children on the autism spectrum
Presentation: CHILD READY? SCHOOL READY? What's important as children start school? What parents and teachers need to know about transition Including - HOW high ability / gifted children manage.
Date: Tuesday 18 June, 2019. 6:30-7:30pm approx. including time for a Q & A session at the end.
Venue: Mary Mackillop Primary. 2 Ernst Wanke Rd. Narre Warren North.
Presenter: Dr Anne Grant
Cost: AGATEVic members free. Mary Mackillop Primary teachers and parents free. Non members $10.
RSVP: a.grant@deakin.edu.au (by June 17)
Presentation: For teachers and school leaders - What do school leaders and teachers need to know about gifted students? What are the best strategies to effectively teach gifted students?
Date: TBA
Venue: TBA
Presenter: Kate Mitchell
Date: Tuesday August 20, 2019
Venue: TBA
Presenter: Dr Jennifer Krafchek - Supporting students as they begin an accelerated learning program or take up a scholarship: Advice to educators and parents.
Date: Tuesday November 19, 2019
Venue: TBA
Presenter: Dr Susan Wade - Highly able students on the autism spectrum: The importance of supportive educators.
View our previous 2018 presentations here below.
Date: Sunday 25 March 2018
Venue: Faculty of Education, Monash University, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Topic: Developing Gifted Potential – DET Project
Audience: DET Teachers – Full
Presenter: Dr Leonie Kronborg & Prof Barbara Kerr
Date: Monday 26 March 2018, 6pm
Venue: Faculty of Education, Room 2.31, Second floor, Learning and Teaching Building, Monash University, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Topic: Anxiety and Depression in Creatively Gifted Students
Audience: All teachers - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Prof Barbara Kerr
Date: Tuesday 1 May 2018
Venue: PLC, 141 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125
Topic: Gifted children in my classes? So what? They are going to be successful anyway aren’t they
Audience: All Primary and Secondary teachers – AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Kate Mitchell
Date: Saturday 12 May 2018
Venue: Faculty of Education, Monash University, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Topic: Developing Gifted Potential – DET Teaching/Research Project
Audience: DET Teachers - Full
Presenter: Dr Leonie Kronborg
Date: Wednesday 16 May 2018
Time: 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Burwood, 3125 - Meet at Reception
NB: Car entry is through GATE 4, Parer St – not Burwood Hwy
Topic: How do girls know they are smart? : Sources of academic self-efficacy in high-achieving females
Audience: All teachers – primary focus
This professional development is free to AGATEVic members, $10 for non-members.
RSVP: sknopfelmacher@plc.vic.edu.au
Presenter: Dr Jennifer Krafchek
Date: Wednesday 30 May 2018
Venue: t.b.c.
Topic: Acceleration – Is acceleration of students the best answer for gifted children?
Audience: All teachers - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Kate Mitchell
Date: Saturday 16 June 2018
Venue: Faculty of Education, Monash University, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton
Topic: Developing Gifted Potential –DET Teaching/Research Project
Audience: DET Teachers - Full
Presenter: Dr Leonie Kronborg
Date: Tuesday 31 July 2018, 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Faculty of Education, The Learning Teaching Building, 381, 19 Ancora Imparo Way, Monash University, Clayton Campus.
Topic: Gifted students on the autism spectrum: An introduction
Audience: All teachers - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Dr Susan Wade
Date: Tuesday 21 August 2018, 5:30pm
Venue: PLC, 141 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125
Topic: To Accelerate or Not: Negotiating the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum with Mathematically Able Adolescent Females
Audience: All teachers – secondary focus - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Julie Bartley-Buntz
RSVP to sknopfelmacher@plc.vic.edu.au
Date: Tuesday 4 September 2018, 5:30-7pm
Venue: PLC, 141 Burwood Hwy, Burwood VIC 3125
Topic: Effective Mentoring of Investigative Learning: Significant Benefits for Gifted Students
Audience: All teachers – secondary focus - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Susan Knopfelmacher M. Ed, BA (Hons), Grad Dip Ed, Postgrad. Cert Gifted Ed
RSVP sknopfelmacher@plc.vic.edu.au
Date: Monday 15 October 2018
Venue: Federation University, Gippsland Campus
Topic: Giftedness from a Rural Perspective
Audience: All teachers - AGATEVic Members are welcome
Presenter: Ass Prof Margaret Plunkett