Gifted and Talented Education in English
The Gifted and Talented Unit provides advice and support in the areas of:
- policy
- identification
- curriculum - a gifted and talented educational perspective is incorporated in curriculum support materials developed in each Key Learning Area (KLA)
- opportunity classes (OC) - selection processes and staff development
- selective schools - selection processes and staff development
- regional and school staff development and student initiatives.
Resources to support teaching gifted and talented students in English
Examples of English units of work listed below, some of which appeared in the Curriculum Differentiation (pdf 1 345kb) support document, provide ideas that may assist teachers in modifying their own programs to cater to the needs of gifted and talented students.
Media Stage 4, Year 7
This sample unit demonstrates how a unit created by Richmond River High School for a mixed ability class studying the media may be further modified using the Williams model to cater for students gifted in English
Media Stage 4, Year 7
This sample applies the Anderson-Krathwohl model for curriculum differentiation to the media unit for a mixed ability class, created by Richmond River High School
Who is Hamlet?, Stage 5, Year 10
Based on a highly complex text, this unit is specifically designed for gifted and talented students of English. It challenges these students to respond to intellectual and moral issues commensurate with their affective level of development.
Using Bloom's taxonomy of learning and the information skill process as a framework, this unit was created to explicitly develop students' abilities to engage at a metacognitive level with key terminology in the HSC syllabuses.
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