Grafton High School
Gifted and Talented Policy
| AIM: |
To provide opportunity for curriculum enhancement, extension and acceleration across all Key Learning Areas for appropriately identified mildly and moderately gifted students at Grafton High School
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| OUTCOMES: |
- Provide channels of communication throughout the school community on Gifted and Talented Policy and Procedures.
- Provide the school community with methods and models for identifying gifted students
- Provide staff with models and strategies for curriculum differentiation to cater for gifted students.
- Provide opportunity for students to engage in extra-curricular cognitive extension activities (eg Tournament of the Minds)
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CONTEXT
In accordance with NSW Department of Education and Training policy, the
Grafton High School community acknowledge its responsibility to cater for the
needs of gifted and talented students and understand that:
Gifted and talented students are found in all communities regardless of
their ethnic, cultural or socio-economic characteristics. The gifted population
includes students who are underachieving and who have disabilities.
Giftedness refers to potential distinctly beyond the average for the
student’s age and encompasses a broad range of abilities in the intellectual,
creative, socio-emotional and physical domains. Talent denotes achievement
distinctly beyond the average for a student’s age as a result of application to
training and practice.
Educational practices promoted in the field of gifted and talented education
draw on information about:
- the nature, identification and development of giftedness and talents
in the school population
- the implementation of effective curriculum and instruction for gifted and
talented students.
OBJECTIVES
The Grafton High School community will promote and develop:
- identification of their gifted and talented students
- collaborative home–school partnerships to support gifted and talented
students.
- a range of learning opportunities in the classroom
- monitoring and evaluation of programs for their gifted and
talented students
- a variety of teaching strategies for inclusion in programs for the
range of gifted and talented students in their classes.
- co-ordination of school provisions within the local region for gifted
and talented students when it is feasible for more than one school to share
this responsibility.
- opportunities for staff development in the education of gifted and
talented students for principals, teachers and other appropriate personnel.