This presentation was given by Ben Kornfeld, the Gifted Education's first Alumni representative on the Board of Trustees, at the first event held for One Day School alumni, before he himself headed to the US for his own study.
In it he discusses the options for students wishing to attend an American University, and how to go about getting a place.
(Due to the high number of photos this is a very large file and will take some time to download.)

Reluctant Writer?
In this presentation, Mary St George presents ideas and options for those children who find ‘pen and paper’ a daunting prospect. Mary delivered this at the ‘Reaching Forward’ Conference in Rotorua, March 2009, and continues to be a passionate advocate for supporting gifted children in all areas of their learning.

This article by Anne Devlin, specialist teacher of gifted children and member of the PD team for The Gifted Education Centre, was recently published in the Tall Poppies magazine Vol 34, No 1, March 2009. Anne also facilitates philosophy and social skills sessions for children in her home area of Christchurch. Ph 03 366 8055 for more information.

During 2007/8, Kylee Edwards researched the educational and social experiences of six children who had been identified as being Gifted with ADHD. Her findings were published in the March edition of ‘Tall Poppies’, the magazine of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children (www.giftedchildren.org.nz)

Rose Blackett (PGDip EdPsych, Med Psych (Hons), BTchLn), current President of the NZ Association for Gifted Children, collaborated with Kelly Hood to provide this informative article which may help a reader identify possible areas of sensory processing difficulty in children. The information is not specific to the gifted child, but reference is made to several common implications for this group of children.

Our very own Sue Breen - AKA Mrs Small Poppies - shares with us some of her experiences of working with the gifted toddler.

The Commonwealth Ministers of Education met in South Africa in December 2006 to discuss education issues facing countries of the Commonwealth. ODS teacher Debbie Smith wrote this article for the book that was released for the conference, called Commonwealth Education Partnerships, published by Nexus Strategic Partnership, Cambridge.

A quest for knowledge and understanding. Written by Sharon Mansfield, ODS Teacher, Hawkes Bay.

An important initial step in helping visual spatial learners is to recognise that these children are not “broke”, and don’t need “fixing”? Rather, they simply have a world view that exists on a different plane to many of us.

This is one of those eternal problems for us all, arising from the fact that in the nature of things, there are always going to be fewer genuinely gifted children than there are high achievers, so it's always going to be difficult, even in larger schools, to create a separate class for gifted learners. In smaller schools, it can be difficult even to create a small withdrawal group solely of the genuinely gifted.

We've all heard that phrase, spoken tolerantly or perhaps with some exasperation!... And yet that same phrase is the key to working successfully with gifted learners.

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