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Teacher workload and pressure to focus on “priority learners” (who, rightly or wrongly, are not perceived to include gifted).

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Not enough is being done to identify and support our Gifted and Talented (G&T), particularly around emotional support. Our suicide rates are a real concern.

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People still not recognising giftedness.

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NOT identifying all students’ rights to an education not just needs.

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Priority Learners ‘must’ include Gifted (prison population is often made up of G&T learners gone astray).

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Lack of teacher education.

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Gifted kids have a right to a year of new learning for a year of schooling. This isn’t the case for our gifted learners.

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Co-ordinated Gifted and Talented Education (GATE). National Programme for schools rather than individual schools doing their own thing or NOT.

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The lack of funding and recognition of the work done and what needs to be done.

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No advisory service any more.

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Lack of funding for teacher networks.

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No funding for gifted students (like ESOL).

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New Education Minister in 3-year election cycle.

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Not a lot of funding for Gifted & Talented education pull-out programmes. Also, it should be more public so people know where they can go to get funding for programmes.

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Dedicated person overseeing gifted area in MoE – there used to be one.

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Read more on my blog post Reality is the Sum of all Perspectives/

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No educational psych assessments for students in Alternative Education.

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Schools needing to fund teacher aides as reader writers for Special Assessment Considerations (SAC).

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SEG (Special Education Grant) being calculated by school roll and not by student need.

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Gifted and talented education being in Post grad study, NOT in pre-service teacher training.

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There is no clear definition, programme, teacher training, resourcing, or recording of Gifted and Talented in NZ – In My Humble Opinion.

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How do the students feel about the terms “gifted” and “talented”?

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Little accountability.

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Insufficient resourcing/checking up on secondary schools. Huge variation between schools.

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Isolation – little inter-school contact.

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Dependent on individual schools, Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) co-ordinators, Board of Trustees, and principals to carry out GATE education.

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Money, money, money! We need more Professional Development, more resources, more dollars!

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Feeling that gifted and talented will look after themselves, and complacency.

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Scarce resources.

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Focus on National Standards an ensuring all learners are at standard, leading to leaving our very capable and advanced learners to “fend for themselves” rather than providing challenge and extension.

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Tertiary Education on ‘gifted learning’ is limited. Not enough funding or professional development.

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Finding the right people and resources/time to get programmes properly up and running in schools.

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Few links from Early Childhood – Primary – Secondary School.

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Teacher education is weak.

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Lack of communication between schools and health.

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Lack of teacher training in needs of gifted kids.

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Layers of expectations already upon teachers diminishes the time for teachers to really view the learner.

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No funding for provision for gifted kids.

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Professional Development should be paid for, rather than rolled out for all schools/teachers who need it, as a matter of “Right.”

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Ministry of Education funded Professional Learning and Development (PLD) is available, but overridden by ‘lifting the tail’ PLD, and schools don’t apply for it.

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Educational change too fast.

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The current classroom environment caters to students who are not able to learn as quickly nor have such inspiration to learn beyond.

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A lack of understanding of diverse expressions of giftedness.

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