Supporting gifted and talented students in PDHPE

The New South Wales government aims to identify gifted and talented students and to maximise their learning outcomes in all public schools. Gifted and talented students are found in all communities regardless of their ethnic, cultural or socio-economic backgrounds. The gifted population includes students who are underachieving and who have disabilities.

The Policy and implementation strategies for the education of gifted and talented students (revised 2004) is available at https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/policies/ in the index under the letter 'G'.

The companion document to the revised policy Guidelines for the use of strategies to support gifted and talented students outlines some of the strategies that can be used to improve the outcomes for gifted and talented students.

Supporting gifted and talented students in your PDHPE class

Curriculum modifications that can be made to address the learning needs of gifted and talented students could include the following.

Content modifications:

be abstract, complex, varied
involve issues of organisation, study of people, methods of inquiry.

Process modifications:

involve higher order thinking processes
promote creative and critical thinking
require problem solving
involve group interaction
have variable levels of pacing
allow for debriefing of the process
involve open-endedness
allow for some freedom of choice.

Product modifications:

involve real world problems
be for real world audiences
require real deadlines
require transformation of learning
involve appropriate assessment and evaluation
involve extended or accelerated outcomes.

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