The Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) is committed to furthering the education of gifted and talented students across Australia. Established in 1985, the AAEGT currently serves members from a range of backgrounds. Our members are parents, educators, academics/researchers and other professionals whose family or work life brings them in contact with gifted children. The work carried out by the AAEGT is led by a Board of Directors. Opportunities to become involved with the AAEGT Member’s Survey In the next few months the AAEGT will be conducting a survey to provide all its members with the opportunity to tell us a bit about themselves and what their ideas and expectations for the AAEGT are. Gifted Awareness Week 2020 Gifted Awareness Week raises community awareness of giftedness and promotes activities that celebrate giftedness in all its forms. The theme for Gifted Awareness Week 2020 is “Well-being – a no limits approach”. You can view our launch video HERE You can read more about Gifted Awareness Week...
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The Australasian Journal of Gifted Education is the official scholarly peer-reviewed publication of the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT). The journal publishes original research, theory and related articles (including book reviews and interviews) on the education, training or development of individuals of high intellectual, creative, socioaffective or sensorimotor abilities, in all of their respective dimensions, broadly defined. Two issues of the journal are published each year. Subscriptions Subscriptions to the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education for one year (two issues) cost A$50 for personal subscribers and A$75 for institutional subscribers. Subscriptions may be requested by clicking on AJGE Subscription Request at the bottom of this section, completing the form, and emailing it to the Treasurer of the AAEGT (treasurer@aaegt.net.au). Once payment is received, the next two issues of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education will be posted to you. Alternatively, it is possible to subscribe to the journal when becoming a member of a state/territory association of the AAEGT. Please contact the relevant state/territory association listed in the “Contact” section of this website, if you wish to subscribe to the journal through your state/territory association (please note that this option will cost A$30, but will also require you to become a member of your state/territory association for a separate fee). SUBSCRIBE HERE Journal Rank Improves! Currently, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) of the journal reached 0.626 (which is only 0.04 below the number two journal in the international field of gifted education), the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) was 0.198 (which is only 0.06 below the number three journal in the international field of gifted education), and the CiteScore was 0.40 (which is only 0.20 below the number four journal in the international field of gifted education). Editor Associate Professor Jae Yup Jung School of Education The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia Email: EditorAJGE@aaegt.net.au Associate Editors Associate Professor Margaret Plunkett (Federation University) Dr Jane Jarvis (Flinders University) Dr Nadine Ballam (Waikato University) Book Review Editor Dr Carly Lassig (Queensland University of Technology) Editorial Panel Dr Katrina Eddles-Hirsch University of Notre Dame Dr Bascal Rhoda Myra Garces National Institute of Education, Singapore Dr Jennifer Jolly The University of New South Wales Dr Leonie Kronborg Monash University Professor Ching-Chih Kuo National Taiwan Normal University Dr Carly Lassig Queensland University of Technology Professor Valerie Margrain Karlstad University, Sweden Professor Michael Matthews University of North Carolina, USA Professor Roger Moltzen University of Waikato, New Zealand Professor Jonathan Plucker Johns Hopkins University, USA Associate Professor Tracy Riley Massey...
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In 2004 AAEGT undertook to produce support materials about giftedness for parents and teachers. A camp for gifted children and their families was held in New South Wales, which provided the venue for filming gifted children and talking with their families and teachers as well as AAEGT directors. Participants travelled from interstate to contribute to the DVD/Video whose contents are described below. Copies of the DVD or video are obtainable from your State Association. You can download the materials and links to support the DVD/Video. Myths Myths arise because, although accurate information on giftedness is available, it is not widely accessed. Other areas demand more attention because of the misconception that there are very few gifted children among us. As a result of inaccurate perceptions, giftedness is susceptible to stereotypes and myths are spread throughout the community. Parents cannot make a child gifted. Gifted children are not usually physically and emotionally undeveloped. Only in situations where they have no mental-age peers to relate to do they appear socially ill-adjusted. Their asynchrony (mental age well in advance of chronological age) means they are out-of-step and have special needs, particularly in education. Myths such as ‘gifted children should be compliant high achievers’ and ‘gifted children need no special educational provisions’ leave these children educationally disadvantaged. Gifted children should not be expected to complete regular class work before extension work is made available. They remain the least understood and lowest funded special needs group in all educational settings. Absence of effective identification strategies in schools across the nation obscures the extent of giftedness among our population. Identification Parents play an important role in the identification of a gifted child, often being the first to realise their child is gifted. The identification process continues when the child begins school. In order to aid this process parents need to document their child’s achievements to date. This can be achieved by preparing a portfolio of the child’s drawings, titles of books they have read, stories they have written and any other relevant information including examples of any other activities the child participates in. Parents can also support the identification process by keeping a record of the age at which their child reached the various developmental milestones. Once your child is at school a variety of identification tools ranging from Individual intelligence tests (IQ) such as a WISC IV to checklists, nomination forms and portfolios should be used. A team of professionals that may include people such as the school principal, classroom teacher and/or school counsellor and gifted and talented coordinator will consider this information. Communication between parents and the school community...
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This collection of resources and links may be of use to teachers Artchive – An apparently full and free collection of the world’s great art with commentary. Australian Science Innovations – a not for profit association aiming to inspire, challenge and raise the aspirations of children in science. They offer the Australian Science Olympiads, sending teams to compete in the international Biology, Chemistry and Physics Olympiads. Email Lillian Lesueur Awesome Library – Provides 18,000 reviewed web resources including the top 5% in education. Cool Slang – An archive of world slang in multiple languages – and you can contribute your local variants. Colour Theory – The part of art about how to mix and put colours together. EdResearch Online – Australian database to 12000+ journal documents, 75% available in full for free Educating.cc – A US omnibus education portal for hundreds of sites of interest to students, parents and teachers Epals Classroom Exchange – large provider of safe email and international epal arrangements Future Problem Solving Program – Engages students in creative problem solving, stimulating critical and creative thinking skills and the development of a vision for the future. Programs in US/Australia/NZ and mentoring elsewhere. High School Hub – Great US site providing categorized links to free online resources relevant to high school students Hoagies Internet Programs – Internet based programs for full classes K-12 Illuminations – US mathematics mega site with classroom ready lessons and applets. Impressionism – A tour of French impressionist paintings with suggested teacher lessons for grades 1-8. Kindergarten Connection – Fresno Pacific Uni’s support site for kindergarten teachers. NASA’s “Telescopes in Education” – Allows a class to control a telescope and download the resulting images. National Centre for History Education – Excellent gateway for teaching and learning Australian history. “Night of Notables” – Describes the Night of the Notables (or variously, Festival of the Famous or Evening of Eagles) programs used in many Australian schools to cater for gifted children and to promote autonomous learning. OzSkyWatch – A site with teacher/educator resources and email support list to inspire and help Australians to learn about the night sky. Perpetual Preschool – A site with a large range of contributed preschool teaching ideas. Research Theses – A list of abstracts of research theses conducted in Australian Universities in gifted education or creativity. UN’s CyberSchoolBus – the United Nation’s global teaching and learning project provides access to some fascinating and mind-expanding information particularly for those interested in the larger world, and also a few games. Wikipedia – free collaborative encyclopedia covering everything but with a possible special...
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The Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented (AAEGT) is committed to furthering the education of gifted and talented students across Australia. Established in 1985, the AAEGT currently serves members from a range of backgrounds. Our members are parents, educators, academics/researchers and other professionals whose family or work life brings them in contact [...]
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