1. family and parenting
2. children

QAGTC/IRATDE/AAEGT 2015 Conference – THURSDAY 19th March
8.30-8.45
Welcome to Country (Auditorium)
8.45-8.55
Welcome/notices (Auditorium)
9.00 – 10.30
Keynote - Elena Grigorenko (Auditorium)
Evaluating the effectiveness of preparatory school: teaching the gifted or gifted teaching
10.35 – 11.05
Morning Tea
Auditorium - Invited Speakers
11.10 – 11.55
12.00 – 12.45
12.55 – 1.55
Lunch
Miraca Gross
Ninety-five years of longitudinal
studies on giftedness; what
should we know by now?
Tony Ryan
Through the looking glass: The
innovative future of gifted
education
B1 – Best Practice
11.10
–
11.40
11.45
–
12.15
12.20
–
12.50
Auditorium – Invited Speakers
Jim Watters
Student wellbeing and social
climate in a streamed secondary
school
2.00 – 2.45
Leonie Kronborg
How do teachers motivate
students to transform gifted
abilities into talents: an
evidence-based approach
2.35
–
3.05
2.50 – 3.35
3.10
–
3.40
3.45 – 4.00A/tea
Auditorium - Symposium
4.05 – 4.50
Seana Moran & Kirsi Tirri &
Jennifer Mariano
Symposium
Moral Purpose: Giftedness in
Self-Regulation for Prosocial
Contribution
5-5.30
AAEGT Meeting
7 pm
Conference Dinner – Rydges
Sky Room - Research
Sue Harrap & Wayne Haworth
Innovative pedagogy that caters
to Gifted and Highly Able
Learners at Nossal High School
Saad Alamer
Gifted Girls and Leadership in Saudi Arabia:
Perspectives from Teachers, experts and
Mosque Imams.
Suzanne Plume& John Oeltjen & Susen Smith
Illuminating the Poetry of the Brain:
Giftedness, Fluid Analogising and the Search for
Creativity
Adrienne Eberhard
Turning on the Light: Reading and Writing
Poetry with Gifted Students
Kathy Mackey
Models of Success: The
Queensland Academies
Denise Wood
Beauty or Brains?
Deborah Walker, Sue Barriball
Creating a Pathway focused on
Gifted
Daniel Patrick Balestrini & Michael Hellemann
& Heidrun Stoeger
Measuring gender bias in authentic gifted STEM
discourse: A study of newspaper writing in
German-speaking Europe and the United
B2 - Best Practice
B3 - Research
Sky Room - Research
Jae Yup Jung & Marie Young
Intrapersonal and interpersonal
factors that shape decisions on
whether talent is developed in the
career context
Frances Olivia Magtoto
Developmental Provisions Given
and Career Plans of MSYA in the
Philippines
Lisette Dillon
Two Gifted Young Adults 7 Years
On: 'What Lifts You?'
Research Posters
Yan Kong & Benny Y. C. Hon
What is Giftedness? A formal definition from
the eyes of a Psychologist and a
Mathematician.
Julia Steinbach & Stefanie Obergruesserm &
Heidrun Stoeger
The influence of attitudes towards selfregulated learning on teaching behavior and
training implementation
Posters – Best Practice
Rosanne Blundell
Practical methods for differentiation in the
classroom
Fahad Alqahtani
Saudi Gifted Teacher Standards 2014 (Best
Practice)
Janelle Wills
The Art and Science of Gifted
Education
Felicity Anderson
A case study of musically gifted youth in an
Australian specialist music secondary school as
informed by the experiences of their teachers:
identification and selection
Susan Burkett & Teresa Moore
Manipulating visibility: Illuminating
the spectrum of G&T development
by analyzing the reflections of six
pre-service teachers
Szu Chuang Cheong
Making Sense of Electric
Circuits Using an Adapted
“Physics by Inquiry” Approach
Russell Walton
Spirituality as a variable according to type of
giftedness
Martina Endepohls-Ulpe
Teachers' reservations against
measures to promote gifted
students - causes and
consequences
Nasseroddin Kazemi Haghighi & Ahmadreza
Kazemi Haghighi
Commercial Directions in “Spherical Structure
of Talent” Theory
Carolyn Giles & Juliette Gartside & Sharyn
Rankine
Aiming High – Emerging from the Darkness in a
Technological World
Lesley Henderson
Professional learning for
teachers in gifted education
Johanna Kuhlmann & Heidrun Stoeger
The role of sociotopes for talent development:
A diary study to assess differences in learning
environments
Miraca Gross & Michele
Juratowitch
Shedding Light on Australian
Teachers’ Knowledge, Attitudes
and Practices Related to
Acceleration
B1 – Best Practice
4.05
–
4.35
B3 - Research
Christine Ireland
Tools, practical examples and important
considerations for teaching creatively across
domains
B1 - Posters
2.00
–
2.30
B2 - Best Practice
Alan D. Thompson
Bright to brilliant
B2 - Best Practice
Mirella Olivier
E-Learning: The holder of Great
Promise for Gifted Children
B3 - Best Practice
Kristie Speirs Neumeister & Virginia Burney
Preparing Gifted Students for Success in a
Competitive Global Environment
Sky Room - Research
QAGTC/IRATDE/AAEGT 2015 Conference – FRIDAY 20th March
8.30-8.45
AAEGT Launch of Gifted Awareness Week (Auditorium)
8.45-9.00
Welcome/notices (Auditorium)
9.00 – 10.30
Keynote Albert Ziegler (Auditorium)
Smart children or smart contexts? The actiotope model - a new approach to gifted education
10.35 – 11.05
Morning Tea
Auditorium - Invited Speakers
11.10 – 11.55
12.00 – 12.45
12.55 – 1.55 Lunch
2.00 – 2.45
Heidrun Stoeger
High-achieving girls: Why don’t
they major in STEM (science,
technology, engineering, and
mathematics) and how can ementoring help to change the
situation?
Kate Niederer
Keeping the Passion Alive:
Identifying and Catering for
Mathematically Gifted Students
B1 – Best Practice
11.10
–
11.40
11.45
–
12.15
12.20
–
12.50
Symposium
Catherine Wormald & Carol
Barnes & Jake
Twice Exceptional
2.35
–
3.05
2.50 – 3.35
3.10
–
3.40
3.45 – 4.00 A/tea
Eunice Gaerlan-Price
Meet, Prey, Like: Gifted girls’ interaction with
social media
Mirella Olivier
Competitions as Motivators for Gifted Students
Toni Meath
Creating a school where the
gifted thrive
Jennifer Jolly
Homeschool Mothers of the Gifted and the
Blogosphere
Margaret Plunkett & Leonie
Kronborg
Teaching gifted students: How well
prepared do our future teachers
feel for the challenge?
Susan Luus
Lighting a Path: Self-presentation
and Underachievement
Jasna Poeszus & Angela Foulds-Cook
Empowering the Gifted Learner
Meagan King & Mardi Bolton
Implementing an Academic
Talent Development Program
Benjamin Matthes
How parents’ implicit theories about the
modifiability of ability deficits influence their
children’s academic achievement
Muna Aljohani
The Importance of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in
Education in the 21st Century
Posters Research
Sonja Kitak
Improving social support and psychological
well-being of gifted students through the use
of coaching
Susan Prior
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Gifted with
a Disability
Posters – Best Practice
Mirella Olivier
Providing Depth and Complexity in the
Curriculum for Gifted Students
Leigh Harrod
Illuminate So All Stars Shall Shine Brightly
Posters – Best Practice
Susan Bellingham
Managing a Geographically Isolated gifted
student.
Auditorium – Invited Speaker
Michelle Juratowitch
Gifted and Happy? Illuminating
the elusive nature of happiness
in gifted children
B1 - Posters
4.05
–
4.35
Posters Best Practice - TOM
Carol O’Donnell & Dianne Rundus
Think, Create, Perform - a history of best
practice in gifted education
B2 - Best Practice
B3 - Best Practice
Justine Bomm
Buzz Light-year: using an iTunes
U course to teach Space
Essatollah Asgharizadeh & Behnam Abedin &
Parisa Hajibabaee
Identification of Barriers for Implementation of
Talent Management in Bank (case study: Refah
Bank)
Linda Parish
Supporting the learning of
mathematically gifted children
Jennifer Long
MineCraft Club
Jo Henwood
Education programs in museums and heritage
sites
Kyunghwa Lee
Development of K-ICT (KoreaIntegrative Creativity Test) for
Kindergarten, Elementary and
Secondary School Students
Sarah Frew
Harnessing Physical and
Electronic Environments to
Excite and Engage Gifted
Students
Jennifer Rowley
Building e-portfolios to enhance teaching and
learning for the gifted
Rosalind Walsh
Are we asking the right questions?
The effect of higher order
questioning with young gifted
children
B2 - Best Practice
Stephanie Reed
Zoning Out or Honing In? Using Mediation to enhance
talent development K-2
Tanya Atherton
Tournament of Minds - A six week challenge or
a lifetime of valuable skills?
4.05 – 4.50
Geraldine Nicholas
Tournament in the Classroom - tips and hints to
enable TOM skills to become embedded in all
students
PhD/Early Career Researchers
Roundtable
5.00-7.00
7.00
? Social gathering – International visitors
Sky Room - Research
Adam Kuss & Gail Young
The Academy of Ideas – A
pathway for gifted students
B1 - Posters
2.00
–
2.30
B3 - Research
Nathan Simmons & Lee Booth
Emotional Intelligence in Gifted Students: It
matters, but how much?
Auditorium - Symposiums
Symposium
Helen Maynard & Adam
Majsaym & Suzanne Plume
Fanning the Bright Sparks
Kindles the Flame:
Differentiating for the gifted in
a school wide culture of
thinking
B2 - Best Practice
B3 - Best Practice
Katrina Sims
Creative Thinking Approach to Catering for the
Needs of Mathematically Gifted Students in
Upper Primary School.
Sky Room - Research
Sky Room - Research
QAGTC/IRATDE/AAEGT 2015 Conference – SATURDAY 21st March
8.45-9.00
Welcome/notices (Auditorium)
9.00 – 10.30
Keynote - Geoff Masters (Auditorium)
Understanding and addressing the learning needs of our highest-performing students
10.35 – 11.05
Morning Tea
Auditorium - Invited Speakers
11.10 – 11.55
12.00 – 12.45
12.55 – 1.55 Lunch
2.00 – 2.45
2.50 – 3.35
Carol Barnes
Overexcitabilities or just plain
oversights? Dabrowski or
Disability? Misdiagnosis or
mixed diagnoses?
Twice-exceptional students
who are diagnostically
homeless
Janelle Wills
The difference that makes a
difference: Helping twice
exceptional children thrive
B1 – Best Practice
11.10
–
11.40
11.45
–
12.15
12.20
–
12.50
Auditorium - Invited Speakers
Wilma Vialle
Creative conundrums: Teachers’
understandings of the nature
and role of creativity in the
classroom
Carly Lassig
Intellectual, creative or both?
Students’ motivations and
experiences of creativity
2.00
–
2.30
2.35
–
3.05
3.10
–
3.40
3.45 – 4.15
Auditorium – Conference Close
4.15 – 4.45
QAGTC Meeting
Jo Belchamber & Katherine Austin
Competition and Creativity
Susan Knopfelmacher
Mentoring gifted students : A unique school /
university partnership
Fiona Jones
Bright but can’t write – dysgraphia and twice
exceptionality
B2 - Best Practice
B3 - Research
Sky Room - Research
Frances Hill
Walking Between Two Worlds –
Educational Provision for the
Indigenous Young Leaders of
the Connected Generation
Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell
Metacognition: Differentiating
executive function
opportunities for the gifted
Michelle Ronksley-Pavia
An exploration of ability in dis-ability: Narrative
tapestries of twice-exceptional children
Gail Young
Acceleration : A prominent
curriculum option for gifted
students
Frances Hoyte
Making friends: the power of words
Joyce Gubbels
Variation in school achievement
and school adjustment in gifted
children with varying triarchic
intelligence profiles
Petra Jansen & Claudia QuaiserPohl
Can motor training contribute to
high performance in cognitive
domains? – Uncommon ways to
enhance mental-rotation ability
Susen Smith
Dynamic differentiation for talent
development of underachievers:
Illuminating teachers’ perspectives
of best practice & support
Tracy Rilen & Janna Wardman & Deborah
Walker
“People Who Think the Same as Me”: The
Importance of Like-Minded Peers for Gifted
Children
B1 - Best Practice
B2 - Best Practice
B3 - Best Practice
Sky Room - Research
Jo Dean & Charlotte James
“I’m a big school girl now!” A gifted child’s
experiences transitioning from kindergarten to
primary school
Sandra Odger
A Working Model to Keep All
Gifted Students Switched on to
Learning
Catherine Heiner& Gladys Martoo
Socratic Smackdown - A Game of Philosophical
Enlightenment
Thomas Jeremy Lee
"I am gifted and I do not know who you are"
Susan Werba
Embedded Extension for Gifted
and Talented Students in
secondary classes
Michael Brosowski & Rosalind Walsh
Engaging Gifted Students in Social Justice
Projects
Fiona Jones &Michele Juratowitch
Distracted or Obsessed: Regulating Bright
Minds
Sandra Lummis & Lesley Roy &
Jan Heffernan
Shining a light on Gifted
Education at Brisbane Boys’
College
Lesley Sutherland, Ben Devine
Young Minds of the Future: Future Community
Problem Solving
Fleur van Rens
Role strain, coping and time
management: the effects on stress
and school performance of
talented adolescent athletes
Stefanie Obergriesser & Julia
Steinback & Heidrun Stoeger
Finding and Helping Gifted
Underachievers: An Empirical Study
with Fourth-Graders
Claudia Quaiser-Pohl & Petra
Jansen & Veea R. Ruthsatz
How can spatial abilities contribute
to high performance in specific
domains?
IRATDE Meeting