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Young, gifted and talented?

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Jax Blunt
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Doing some more research while trying to write up a gifted and talented policy and I’ve found this:

The Young Gifted & Talented (YG&T) programme is provided for gifted and talented learners in maintained primary and secondary schools or colleges. Learners who are home-educated, in non-maintained schools/colleges or educated overseas also have access to the programme. Perhaps your child is one of them!

The website is here.

Further info as to how to identify whether you are dealing with gifted and talented children:

The DCSF strongly encourages schools and colleges to maintain their own G&T register.

A secondary-phase register should include all learners who:

* were previously members of the former National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) and who were transferred across as members of YG&T in autumn 2007 during the first phase of the YG&T programme launch; and/or

* were not previously members of the former NAGTY but nevertheless are judged by the school/college to meet the former NAGTY eligibility criteria; and/or

* while they may not meet the former NAGTY eligibility criteria, have been identified by the school/college as gifted and/or talented because their ability is developed to a level significantly ahead of their year group within that school/college, or because they have the potential to develop such ability.

Key areas may include one or more of the following: subject-specific skills, “cross-curricular” skills (such as creativity, leadership, communication), vocational skills, entrepreneurial skills.

A primary-phase register should include all learners who:

* have been identified by the school as gifted and/or talented because their ability is developed to a level significantly ahead of their year group within that school, or because they have the potential to develop such ability.

Key areas may include one or more of the following: subject-specific skills, “cross-curricular” skills (such as creativity, leadership, communication), vocational skills, entrepreneurial skills.

For further information, please see the DCSF guidance on identification.

Still trying to work out how to apply this to a school that has only one child in several of the year groups, but I thought I’d drop the information here in case it’s of interest to any of you out there as well 🙂

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5 responses to “Young, gifted and talented?”

  1. HelenHaricot avatar
    HelenHaricot

    i think it is total b******t to appease middle class parents worried their children will be dragged down by the class. there children will be at school, and the 5 mins help they get may well not alter that.
    i think you could say that at Montessori all will be treatedd as gifted and talented because of the individualised and personal nature of the learning there.

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  2. HelenHaricot avatar
    HelenHaricot

    sorry, it is one of my wind me up and watch me go rants
    http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2007/04/13/gifted-and-talented/

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  3. Jax avatar
    Jax

    certainly the Montessori approach allows for all children to work at their own pace and that’s a key point in its favour when dealing with every child’s special educational needs 😉 but what I’m aiming for is something that will simultaneously impress and reassure – I’ve had a chat with one parent who is worrying that we’re racing her son ahead, when in reality we’re just responding to his own actions by offering him a wider range of materials and things to do with them. A key phrase which is likely to appear is what the NAGC adviser said : “wider, deeper, broader” (although I’m worrying that it’s a bit cliched to say the least, and the wider/ broader thing is bothering me as they are synonyms though I wouldn’t use them completely interchangeably…).

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  4. Jax avatar
    Jax

    oh, and given that the website is free, and many of the activities and events on it are too, would think that many home educated families might want to investigate 🙂

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  5. t-bird anni avatar
    t-bird anni

    I suppose your policy hsa to be something along th lines of “due to the individual tailoring of learning to the child within teh Montesori philosophy, we can be confident that each child’s individual gifts and talents are fully explored adn any weaker areas supported and deveoped at a pace dictated by the child and suited to the child”

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