Thriving not just surviving
Location
Online event access details will be provided by the event organiser
About
The Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented, during Gifted Awareness Week 2021
brings you
Thriving not just surviving:
An interactive presentation of the latest research on grouping in gifted education
presented by Dr Karen Rogers & Dr Peta Hay
This session will be conducted via Zoom. Those registered will be sent a link closer to the date.
Date: AEST
Cost: $25; (Discounted price for AAEGT members: $5);
(Discounted price for NAGCM & NZCGE members: $15)
To join the AAEGT become a member of the following state organisations: ACT: ACTGFSG; NSW: GiftedNSW; TAS: TAG; VIC: VAGTC or AGATEVic; WA: GiftedWA; SA: GTCASA; or for Qld and NT: click here
Presentation Abstract:
Educators aim to give all of their students an optimal learning environment so that they can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Sadly, many gifted students experience inappropriate educational provisions due to educators’ misinformation and misconceptions about appropriate programming. Many gifted students simply survive school; tragically, some even drop out of school despite their high potential. It is critical that parents and educators understand how to challenge and encourage our gifted students by using evidence-based educational provisions.
Few educators would disagree that grouping students is important for learning given it provides important opportunities for observation and modelling (Bandura, 1977; 1986). However, differences arise around how to group students. Gifted/talented students do not respond to grouping in the same way as their same age peers; they generally thrive in like-minded/like-achieving groupings (Steenbergen-Hu, Makel & Olszewski-Kubilius, 2016). In this workshop we will analyse the most recent meta-analysis data on gifted and talented students comparing their academic, social, and emotional outcomes in ability/achievement groupings with mixed-ability groupings (via effect sizes).
For parents, this session will provide good information they might present to their respective schools to ensure that their own children will have their needs for grouping addressed. Teachers who participate will be invited to consider the ways in which research may apply to different students’ needs, classrooms, and schools. This presentation will actively engage teachers and parents in figuring out how to apply the grouping research that is presented. It is expected that discussion will be lively, yet useful!
About the Presenters:
Dr Karen Rogers is Professor Emerita of gifted education at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She currently teaches quantitative research design and statistics courses for doctoral students there. She reflects fondly on her years teaching yearly for COGE (1994-2004) and her 3-year stint at Director of Research and Senior Professor for GERRIC at UNSW. Her research interests include curriculum and instructional best practices, cognitive development, twice exceptionality, and arts education/creativity.
Dr Peta Hay is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, teaching undergraduate and post-graduate gifted education courses. She also delivers the popular GERRIC Mini Certificate of Gifted Education to teachers across Australia. Her PhD, completed at the University of New South Wales, examined the interaction between moral reasoning and empathy in gifted children, and she continues to be interested in the socio-affective aspects of giftedness. Her research interests also include school and classroom programming for gifted students, and how to support teachers to utilise best practices.