Symposium for Gifted Education
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Perth 26th August
What to Expect on the Day
Timings
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Julie Arliss Introduction: The Battle against one’s Own Stupidity |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Julie Arliss: The Future as Blended. Upskill: online teaching and learning for gifted students. |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Swap Meet – sharing of ideas and networking |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Julie Arliss: Logic, the Gifted Student’s Edge : Logic and alternative facts. |
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Programme
1. The Battle against one’s own Stupidity
What is a gifted child and what is the nature of our concern for him or her? Is testing for giftedness enough and what is it about the best teachers that encourages them to thrive and prepare them for the ‘long littleness’ of ‘life’.
2. The Future as Blended. Upskill: online teaching and learning for gifted students
This session will introduce delegates to online learning specifically designed forgifted students and explain how this can help with workload and improve overall performance, while the teacher maintains full oversight.
3. Swap Meet – sharing of ideas and networking
Delegate opportunity to share expertise with members of the GATE community
in WA and build better together. Come ready to share your favourite approach or
resource. Please contact us if you would like a 5-10 minute opportunity to showcase.
4. Logic, the Gifted Student’s Edge : Logic and alternative facts.
It is more important than ever to be able to equip gifted students with the tools they
need to discern fact from fiction. This multi-media lecture will resource teachers
with an overview of classical ideas of truth and logic and the role of contemporary
social media in re-shaping these ideas. The session will consider some of the best
ways to show gifted students how logic functions, looking particularly at deduction,induction and abduction, as well as the place of logic in post-modern reasoning.
Speaker
Julie Arliss
A Farmington Scholar at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Julie Arliss is a highly accomplished teacher and author. She is a well-known international educator of gifted students with a gift for making the complex simple, and the simple complex. She is committed to the provision of world-class extension activities for these students, to extend their reach well beyond the curriculum to new areas of knowledge. She is a former principal examiner for Cambridge International Examinations and founder of Academy Learning.
Venue
Servite College
134 Cape Street
Tuart Hill
WA 6060