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S5.9.5 Supporting Potentially-Gifted Learners in the Early Years (Birth Through Age 5) Across the World

Early childhood experts from multiple nations and continents discuss efforts in their countries (USA, Germany, Scotland, New Zealand,) to identify and support high ability, potentially gifted early learners (from birth through age five), including potentially gifted students from special populations with unique needs such as foster children, orphaned children, and children experiencing homelessness; children in minority racial groups; children from families of low socio-economic status; children in crisis or who have experienced trauma; and twice-exceptional children.

Author(s):

L. Kathleen Casper
kcasperlaw@yahoo.com
Florida Association for the Gifted
United States

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Kathleen Casper, J.D., gifted education coordinator for Florida Virtual School, former Florida Department of Education gifted specialist, gifted consultant for multiple districts/schools, current president of the Florida Association for the Gifted (FLAG), board member of Pasco Hernando Early Learning Coalition, past board member of SENG. She is an attorney, focusing on family law and educational policy regarding gifted and twice exceptional issues for students ages Prek-adult. She is a mother and a foster parent/advocate and author of Smart Babies: A guide for identifying and supporting Gifted traits in infants and young children and blogger at Oneworldgifted.weebly.com.

Margaret Sutherland
Margaret.Sutherland@glasgow.ac.uk
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom

   

Dr Margaret Sutherland is Director of Post Graduate Research and Senior Lecturer in inclusive education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is Director of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils and has 37 years teaching experience in mainstream primary schools, behaviour support and in higher education. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has written extensively in the field of gifted education. Her book, Gifted and Talented in the Early Years has been translated into German and Slovenian. She leads seminars and has been invited to work with staff and students across the world.

Dagmar Bergs-Winkels
dagmar.bergs-winkels@haw-hamburg.de
University of Applied Sciences Hamburg
Germany

   

Dr. Bergs-Winkels is full professor at University of Applied Sciences Hamburg. She is also: vice dean for study and international affairs and head of the BA program, Childhood Education; senior lecturer (PD) at the WWU Münster and speaker of all German programs for childhood education; program director of the European certificate of preschool gifted education for the European Council for High Ability (ECHA) and the International Center for the Study of Giftedness, University of Muenster. She is scientific leader of the Kindergarten, Campuskinder Hamburg and member of a section of the “Wissenschaftsrat” of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Jo Dean
jdeanresearch147@gmail.com
University of Melbourne
New Zealand

   

Jo Dean is an experienced Early childhood teacher and currently a Head teacher working in a privately-owned early childhood centre with children from 3 months to 5 years. She brings experience as a tertiary lecturer at Massey University (NZ) and as a Professional Development facilitator. Jo is an elected board member of giftEDnz the Professional Association for Gifted Education and is a founding member of the Special Interest group of the Early Years. She is one of the co-editors of a book on gifted issues from a New Zealand perspective: Giftedness in the early years: Informing, learning and teaching. http://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/giftedness

Andrea Delaune
Andrea.delaune@pg.canterbury.ac.nz
University of Canterbury
New Zealand

   

Andrea Delaune is a highly knowledgeable early childhood teacher with experience working in education management and governmental advisory positions. Skilled in Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Critical Policy Analysis, and Academic writing, Andrea is an author of multiple publications, with a strong trend of writing on political and structural issues which impact on learning for gifted infants and toddlers. Andrea is an elected board member of giftEDnz The Professional association for Gifted Education, and undertakes a variety of other responsibilities.

 


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