SYSTEMS IN EDUCATION: FOR PARENTS OF GIFTED CHILDREN

The Gifted Child and Adolescent

Using systems thinking in making educational decisions

A FREE Introductory Seminar: 1pm – 2p.m.

For parents of children starting Opportunity Classes and Selective Schools or parents considering educational options for their gifted child

The gifted child, like the child with learning delays, is different from age peers in the pace the brain makes connections to learn and the pace the child progresses through the stages of development to adulthood.  Research has shown there are significant differences in a gifted child’s intellectual and emotional development.  Awareness of these differences is helpful to support a parent making educational decisions for a child.  This seminar for parents, informed by current educational and social research in gifted education and Bowen Family Systems Theory will begin to explore:

• What does Bowen Family Systems offer parents in making educational choices?
• What is Giftedness?
• Social and emotional development of the gifted child
• Difficulties gifted children may experience and challenges for parenting
• Parents’ capacity to have boundaries with their child rather than focus on a child’s performance
• The impact of the system’s anxiety on the child’s development
• How family systems patterns may be replicated in the classroom
• Underachievement: What stops a gifted child translating a natural gift to a talent?
• Thinking systems in preparing for the OC, Selective and scholarship tests
• Making systems informed educational decisions, including those regarding coaching 

Facilitator: 

Jill Grundy has thirty years of teaching experience including school leadership and classroom teaching (Kindergarten to Year 6). In the past eight years she has specialised in gifted education, teaching Opportunity Classes.  She holds a Certificate of Gifted Education from the University of NSW and is currently combining studies at The F.S.I., in the Certificate of Family Systems and Family of Origin coaching, with a Master of Education in Gifted Education.

Cost:   FREE

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