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Certificate in Effective Practice in Gifted Education

This course has been designed to equip you with a range of thoroughly practical tools and strategies to help you work effectively with gifted learners.

It’s written and taught by educators with real expertise in this field, based not only on their comprehensive academic knowledge but also on many years of themselves working directly with gifted children, their classroom teachers, and their parents.

It’s built round three interwoven themes, understanding, identifying and teaching gifted learners, and covers all your most frequently asked questions, whether you‘re working in early childhood, primary or at high school level.

Sample range of topics:
defining giftedness, understanding the behaviour of gifted children, identification as a process, testing vs. qualitative data, using the interview, why giftedness is often not identified, building the right learning environment, raising motivation, organisational skills and the gifted, setting a high level of challenge, social issues, defining the goals of gifted education, creativity and giftedness, cultural differences, working with parents, IEPs, evaluating programmes, etc etc.

The course comes in 11 fortnightly modules delivered online in a format designed to be easy to use - you‘ll need only basic computer skills. You’ll also receive a package of thought-provoking reading materials and handy resources such as checklists and questionnaires, and you’ll have the guidance and support throughout of your own online tutor. Our material has been developed to take into account your available time and energy as a busy teacher. At the same time we guarantee it will challenge your thinking, encourage your imagination and keep you as well as your students interested throughout!

Australian educators please note
Yes you can now enrol too! See prospectus for more details.
"These programs can also be found on the Pdi search engine. All programs listed on Pdi reference the standards of professional practice for renewal of registration."

What do participants say about this course?
After some of their staff completed this course and reported back on its outcome, Rangitoto College, New Zealand’s largest high school, made enrolment a condition of employment for the appointment of their next gifted education coordinator. To find out what other participants have said about this course, click here.

ENROLMENT INFORMATION

FOR 2009 ONLY: because of our national conference on 13-15 March, the deadline for enrolments for this course has been extended for this year to 22 March.

Enrolments open on the 1st of October each year and close on the following 5th of March. The course itself starts towards the end of March each year. Places are limited, so we encourage early enrolment - an earlybird discount is available for those who enrol before the 15th of December!

• Click here for a downloadable prospectus (Word 60 kb) with full details of course coverage, assessment requirements, fees, etc.
• Click here for your downloadable enrolment form (Word 32 kb).

You can also pre-register at any time during the year and we will send you an enrolment reminder before 1 October. Just send us an email with your name and contact details and a request for an enrolment reminder. (NB: Please list your preferred email address in your contact details).

Email us at reacheducation@xtra.co.nz