Press Release
A number of Tasmania’s highly gifted year 11 and 12 students will have their achievements, as part of the University of Tasmania’s High Achiever Program, honoured in a ceremony to be held at the University’s John Elliot Classics Museum at 2:30 on Friday 10th December, 2010.
“Programs such as the University’s High Achiever Program provide an excellent way in which our high achievers can be challenged to move closer to achieving their potential,” said the president of the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted, Lynne Maher.
“Too often, gifted students are not given the opportunity to work on their core subjects at a level that is sufficiently challenging for them”, Ms Maher said.
Research has shown that by grade 5, 33% of students could be working at a grade level above that in which they are enrolled, a proportion of these could be working 2 or more grades above.
“Often our school systems offer gifted students a small amount of extension outside the standard classroom program, but this is really only icing on the cake. Gifted students don’t need extra work, they need a differentiated program. The bread and butter of their everyday curriculum needs to be at a higher level than that of the majority of their peers,” said Ms Maher
“These students, who have achieved so well by completing university subjects while still in senior secondary college, demonstrate what can be achieved by gifted students when they are given the opportunity.”
WHERE: University of Tasmania, John Elliot Classics Museum
WHEN: Friday December 10, 2010
TIME: 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Lynne Maher
