Enhance your differentiation skills and ability to cater to gifted learners
GERRIC at UNSW is an authority聽in Australia for professional educators looking to enhance their ability to help gifted students flourish in today鈥檚 classroom.
GERRIC provides in-services and short professional learning courses to individual educators, schools or groups of schools.聽
GERRIC will help you to:聽
- Identify gifted and talented students聽
- Differentiate the curriculum for your high-ability students聽
- Implement ability grouping or acceleration with your students聽
- Understand gifted education best practices.聽
GERRIC at UNSW School of Education supports the NSW Department of Education鈥檚 revised High Potential and Gifted Education Policy,聽operational in all NSW Schools since Term 1, 2021. Our research features聽in the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation (CESE) literature review, which accompanies the policy and provides a major support resource.
The policy identifies that a broader approach is needed to ensure all students who are gifted or have high potential maximise their learning outcomes. Our Mini-COGE contributes to one of the policy鈥檚 key actions to 鈥渂uild teacher and leadership capacity through engagement with quality research and ongoing professional learning on effective practices鈥.
Gifted education workshops video
Katherine Thompson explains the importance of the various gifted education workshops offered by UNSW School of Education and the school holiday programs that cater to gifted students and parents of gifted children.