Members area
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Welcome to our members area
The AAEGT has designed this area of the website especially for you, our members.
As part of the AAEGT's goals to collaborate with and support our members, this page contains resources to inform and educate you. We aim to help you to improve your skills, knowledge and confidence in understanding, working with and advocating for gifted learners.
Remember, your membership allows discounted registration for all AAEGT events.
Our community
As a member of the AAEGT you are part of a nation-wide community of teachers, parents, researchers and professionals who want to see increased awareness of the academic and social needs of gifted learners.
We come from every state in Australia, have tight links to some of our neighbouring countries, and together we are a strong voice for change to policy, pre-service education for teachers, professional learning for educators, support for families and political support.
Thank you for being a part of this community. Your membership is important and we look forward to working together for the benefit of gifted learners around Australia.
Discounts & benefits
View the Dina Brules video presentation Building Inclusive Gifted Programs Enfranchise & Empower for the special member price of $5 ($25 to non-members). Use discount code GAWMEMBER80
Download FREE printable thank you cards.
Receive 10% discount on the purchase of John Geake's book Explorations in Mind
Coupon Discount code:
GEAKEMEMBER10
2026 Gifted Awareness Week Symposium Videos
We are delighted to provide our members with access to the presentation videos from our 2026 Online Gifted Awareness Week Symposium. This symposium aimed to showcase some of the many varied voices of gifted individuals and those who support them. We thank each of our presenters for their generosity and support.
Dr Denise Wood - Mapping the Journey
Lauren Krause - Strategic Vagueness & Silent Standards
Dr Sue Vasilevska & Joanne Gray - Addessing Equity Gaps
Michele Linossier - Creating and Maintaining a Network for Schools
Sarah Fleming - Social-Emotional Autonomy Support for Twice-Exceptional Students
Chrissy Gamble & Elli Lightbody - Twice-exceptional, Twice Overlooked: Strength-Based Pathways
Dr Anne Wood - Beyond Extension
Geraldine Nicholas - Creative and Critical Thinking in Action
Nichole Shepherd - Case Studies as Illustrations of Practice
Penina Kiss - The Concept of Being 'Better Together'
Lynne Maher, Gifted Education in an Ideal World
Emily Green, Parenting a Highly Gifted Child
Troy Eggleston, Late Identification, Neurodivergence and Advocacy in Gifted Education
Lucy Birts, Beyond Identification
Jan Robinson, Research & Reality, A Case Study
Dr Alison Brown - What Lies Beneath the Anger
Emily Peterson - Help! The Maths is Beyond Me
Dr Kate Aster - From Anger to Anxiety: Emotional Regulation for the Intense and Sensitive
Emmett Aster - Twice-exceptionality and Radical Acceleration: A Retrospective
Dr Michelle Ronksley-Pavia and Professor John Munro - Amplifying Potential with Generative AI
Lynne Maher from the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted presents " Advocating for a Gifted Child."
View the Dina Brules video presentation Building Inclusive Gifted Programs Enfranchise & Empower for the special member price of $5. Use discount code GAWMEMBER80
Downloadable books
Dual Exceptionality
edited by Catherine Wormald and Wilma Vialle
Students who exhibit dual exceptionality, i.e. giftedness and a learning difficulty, need to be better identified and understood by their teachers so that improved educational programs and strategies may be designed and delivered to more effectively address their academic, social and emotional needs.
Giftedness from an Indigenous Perspective
edited by Wilma Vialle
Giftedness exists equally in all populations, yet indigenous students comprise one group that is still under represented in educational programs for gifted students.
PDF Resources
AAEGT 2025 Annual Report
Reading lists for Years 3 – 6
It is difficult to find reading material for this age group. These children can be avid readers but are not catered for in terms of complexity in language and plot.
I dreamed a dream
One person’s view of gifted education in an ideal world.
Drawing on nearly 2 decades of learning, advocating, advising and lobbying, the author reflects on the practices, attitudes and values that could make a huge difference to the education of gifted students.
AAEGT 2022 Virtual Gifted Conference Presenter Handouts
Many of the speakers at the AAEGT 2022 Virtual Gifted Conference 'Future Focus: A Gifted Education Paradigm Shift' have provided their slides, or other handouts.
2022 AAEGT Virtual Conference Videos
As part of the 2022 AAEGT Virtual Gifted Conference 'Future Focus: A Gifted Education Paradigm Shift', Professor Robert Sternberg presented a keynote address: "Transformational Giftedness"
Now available for AAEGT members to watch.
As part of the 2022 AAEGT Virtual Gifted Conference 'Future Focus: A Gifted Education Paradigm Shift', Professor Scott J. Peters presented a keynote address: "What makes for Defensible Gifted Education?"
Now available for AAEGT members to watch.
