Is your child Gifted and Talented?



Do you offer extension work?

Yes, I have been trained with gifted and talented children and I know how to extend them. Gifted children need work which challenges them yet is still within their capacity. Additional worksheets are not challenging. A repetition of their school work is not challenging or engaging.

Extending children is about engaging them in challenging activities. Gifted children need to complete activities that are challenging for them; these will often be at a higher level than what they are completing in school. I ensure that activities for gifted children are differentiated from what other children their own age may be doing at school.



Do you do selective school exam preparation?

If all you want for your gifted child is for them to get selective school preparation, then I recommend you enrol your child for a term or 2 at one of the specialist preparation colleges. If I am already tutoring your child and extending them I will devote several sessions to preparation for the selective exam.



What types of work will you with my gifted child?

The type of work I do with a child who is already functioning at a high academic level depends upon that child’s interests and needs and will be determined through above level testing and discussion with the child and their parents.

Possibilities include novel studies, independent research studies with guidance, above level study in Mathematics, scientific investigations, creating detailed pieces of writing aimed at a specific audience, advanced logic puzzles, history, biographical studies, special subject studies.



I use the Bloom, Maker and Williams curriculum models to assist me in developing appropriate challenges for your child.

Contact me for a free assessment via lindsayewent@gmail.com
or by calling 0422 817 347.

Lindsay Went

Quotes

    "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
    – Mary Pettibone Poole

    “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
    – Ronald E. Osborn

    “It's a tough time to raise, teach or be a highly gifted child... Schools are to extraordinarily intelligent children what zoos are to cheetahs... Every organism has an internal drive to fulfill its biological design. The same is true for unusually bright children. From time to time the bars need be removed, the enclosures broadened. Zoo Chow, easy and cheap as it is, must give way, at least some of the time, to lively, challenging mental prey.”
    Stephanie Tolan

    “SHOULD all kids do this work? COULD all kids do it? WOULD all kids want to do it? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” then it isn’t differentiated work for the gifted
    Harry Passow

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