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Explorers
Club
www.explorers.org.nz
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Many
Auckland-based parents with kids at the One
Day School belong to the Explorers Club,
which provides their families with an opportunity
for social interaction with other families with
gifted children. Explorers has clubdays
4-5 times per term - each day with a different
theme, holiday activities, weekend camps held
twice a year, and a fun and informative newsletter.
Adults (including non-members) can attend information
evenings to meet 'gifted' specialists, hear
what some schools offer the gifted, and generally
have an opportunity to chat with parents of
other gifted children.
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New
Zealand Association for Gifted Children
www.giftedchildren.org.nz
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is the Auckland Branch of the NZ Association
for Gifted Children. The NZAGC publishes
Tall Poppies, a magazine aimed at the family of
the gifted child and professionals involved with
child development. NZAGC has an extensive library
consisting of books, audio and video tapes, games
and pamphlets, which may be borrowed.
The autonomous regional branches (including
Explorers in Auckland) organise activities -
clubdays, speakers, parent evenings and so on
- where gifted children and their parents can
find support, friendship and stimulation.
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Philosophy
for Children
www.p4c.org.nz
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Philosophy
4 Children builds on students' wonder and
curiosity about ideas that are vitally important
to them. The subject matter of Philosophy 4 Children
is those common, central and contestable concepts
that underpin both our experience of human life
and all academic disciplines.
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The
Mass-E-Gifted Education Resource: Your Roadmap to
New Zealand
This e-resource is designed to assist educators in
quickly locating information on gifted education within
New Zealand and internationally.
Maintained by Dr
Tracy Riley
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Blackett and Associates Educational Psychologists
Http://www.roseblackett.co.nz
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University
of Otago (article)
Stored at www.maths.otago.ac.nz |
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The
University of Otago has an interest in the
mathematically talented, and has an article
intended to provide assistance for parents,
teachers and children who appear to have better
than average ability in mathematics.
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SPELD
NZ
www.speld.org.nz
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SPELD
NZ, the Specific Learning Disabilities Federation,
has 30 member associations throughout New Zealand
which help children who are not realising their
educational potential because of a cluster of
specific learning disabilities - children who
learn differently.
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The
Assessment and Counselling Centre (Lynn Berresford
& Associates)
www.indigo.org.nz/ |
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The
Assessment and Counselling Centre
offers cognitive and educational assessments to identify
individual strengths and weaknesses. We can assess
individuals from 3.5yrs up to adults of 80yrs. Please
visit our website for more info. Counselling services
are available for children, teenagers and adults.
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Auckland
Home Educators Inc
www.home-education.org.nz
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Auckland
Home Educators Inc is an incorporated society
of parents living in the greater Auckland region
who actively facilitate their children's education
at home on a full-time basis. It facilitates
the regional networking of home-ed information,
activities and expertise; and provides an official
vehicle to negotiate benefits for families that
are normally only offered to registered schools/teachers.
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Danks
Davis
www.danksdavisdyslexia.co.nz |
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The
Danks Davis Dyslexia Method is a multi sensory
method using spelling and brain gym in an unusual
way to achieve superb results in a relatively
short time. The method works whether you are
a child or an adult.
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Tournament
of Minds
www.tom.edu.au |
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of Minds is an enjoyable, rewarding and challenging
programme which aims to develop students cooperative,
thinking and problem solving skills. The programme
is in two parts. Firstly a "Long Term Challenge"
where teams of seven students have six weeks to
develop a solution to an open ended problem in
either a language literature, social science or
maths engineering field. Secondly, a "Spontaneous
Challenge" which is a timed event where team
members respond as rapidly and creatively as possible
to a presented challenge. A tournament can be
run as either an interschool programme in a cluster
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| AUSTRALIA-BASED
ORGANISATIONS |
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NSW
Assn for Gifted & Talented Children Inc.
www.nswagtc.org.au
The
place for information and support for teachers
and parents of gifted children.
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Tasmanian
Association for the Gifted
www.tasgifted.org.au
The
Tasmanian Association for the Gifted is a non-profit,
parent-based organisation based in Hobart.
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| PROMINENT
VISITORS |
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Dr.
Linda Silverman coined the term 'visual-spatial
learner' in 1981 to describe the unique gifts
of people who think in images. She is a
licensed psychologist, noted author, editor, researcher,
and international lecturer on all aspects of high
ability. Linda founded and directs the Institute
for the Study of Advanced Development and its
subsidiaries, the Gifted
Development Center and Visual-Spatial
Resource. |
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Allie
Golonis Marketing Director for the Institute
for the Study of Advanced Development, and its
subsidiaries, the Gifted
Development Center and Visual-Spatial
Resource. She coordinates the Gifted
Development Center Speakers' Bureau and serves
as Executive Assistant to Linda Silverman.
As a founding member of the Visual-Spatial Resource
Access Team, a former G/T teacher and homeschooling
parent to two exceptionally gifted visual-spatial
learners, Allie brings a wealth of experience
to her books, Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids:
Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
and If You Could See The Way I Think: A
Handbook for Visual-Spatial Kids. |
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Prof.
Francoys Gagne is a world leader in gifted
education, research and scholarship. He
is an Emeritus Professor at the University of
Quebec in Montreal. He is known for his Differentiated
Model of Giftedness and Talent.
Francoys was the keynote speaker at our 2004
Conference in Auckland.
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