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2.5.7 An Archdiocesan Approach to the Identification and Selection of Gifted Learners
This session is about one Catholic school system’s approach to identifying and selecting gifted students for its Newman Selective Gifted Education Program, which has improved the effective provisions for gifted learners across the largest Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia. Key findings from the pilot project suggested that parents are keen to nominate their children for placement in a secondary Newman class, systemic sharing of primary school data supports student profiles, and the use of a system-designed "hotmat" makes the process time-efficient. These findings concur with research, which concludes that using multiple criteria for identification highlights the diversity of gifted learners.