Thursday 14 May 2009

Gifted & Talented TaraNet

TaraNet GATE (Gifted & Talented Education) teachers met this afternoon via VC to discuss what they were doing in their GATE programmes with a view to future sharing & collaboration. We are lucky to have Ingrid from Patea Area School to lead discussion as in her previous life she was a GATE advisor.

Ideas for shared GATE activities:

A good example of a cluster collaborating to provide GATE opportunities for students is CoroNet’s Year 10 ProbLit programme

2 comments:

Darren Sudlow said...

There is further possiblity for pan cluster collaboration with these sorts of programmes. Your timing is perfect. We are implementing a similar programme with our students here. I have put a proposal to the principals.

You have some good ideas that we didn't think of. Our G&T co-ordinators have been having ongoing discussion for some time using the VC and Google Groups.

A good chance for ePrincipals to share what they are doing on this. Perhaps I should create a folder on the VLN where we can share programmes/policies/proposals? Or even on a wiki.

Rachel Whalley said...

It would be great for our kids to join in with other clusters. Carolyn & I have discussed FarNet students coming onboard. This would especially suit the context outlined in the C4 document "Postcards from Taranaki" This year will be a trial and then branch out from there.
I want to see this project not only contributing to the learning needs of our students but as a vehicle to strengthen our cluster culture as a dynamic learning community.