Cognition

Cognition Education will continue to offer professional services for the Ministry of Education for 'Gifted and Talented Education’. This builds on our work in 2010.

The focus for 2011 is:

• to manage the ongoing development of the GATE website: to refine existing elements; identify gaps and develop a plan for 2011 for Ministry approval read more
• to establish and grow a sustainable, moderated, online community of practice for those involved in GATE, with a focus on supporting teachers and school leaders read more
• to establish regional strategy groups (RSGs) for GAT in 12 regions, comprised of representatives from the schooling sector, the Ministry, PLD providers, private providers and other local organisations, including businesses.
• to conduct regional symposia in 12 regions on behalf of the Ministry of Education read more
• targeted GAT initiative to work with a group of identified schools in areas of high Māori and Pasifika populations to support the development of models of support for GAT students read more
• to continue the development of the Planning and Identification Toolkits

Project team for 2011

Dr Phil Coogan This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Leader	Pip Arnold This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Manager and managing the GAT initiative
Micheal King This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Managing the RSG work	Maria Lute This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Managing both online elements: website and community of practice	Suzi Wallis This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Project Administrator
In 2010, Cognition Education provided gifted and talented professional services to the Ministry of Education in five areas. These were: the review and updating of the gifted and talented site on TKI ; connecting gifted and talented stakeholders across the country via 12 regional symposia; working with professional learning communities  to develop and plan approaches to identifying under-represented students especially Māori and Pasifika students; developing an identification toolkit through collaboration with the gifted and talented community; working with a target group around planning and implementation of the toolkit