Membership gives you the following privileges:
- Heavily discounted, or in many instances free, registration to upcoming TAG and AAEGT events including online information sessions presented by academics, psychologists and teachers.
- Unlimited 24/7 access to previously recorded information sessions (year 2020-current) uploaded in members area on website.
Topics include:
Gifted children – building friendships at school,
An introduction to understanding giftedness,
Identification and best practice for twice exceptional students,
Acceleration – dispelling the myths with research and reality,
ILPs for gifted students,
Using questioning and HOTS in and out of the classroom,
Perfectionism in gifted students,
Unlocking potential: addressing academic underachievement,
Advocating for a gifted child,
Building resilience in gifted children,
Gifted students & bullying (and many more…)
- Access to a library of specialist books & materials.
- Assistance with guidelines to help with the identification of the gifted child.
- Access to resources and activities designed to meet the needs of gifted children and their teachers, caregivers and parents including a document with >150 opportunities, competitions & challenges collated by TAG (with a Tasmanian & Australian focus).
- Representation and lobbying of State and Federal Government on members’ behalf to protect and extend the provisions for gifted children in Tasmania.
- Unlimited 24/7 online access to a 6-module PD package on gifted education for teachers, principals & support staff authored by GERRIC (pre-primary, primary and secondary modules).
- Face to face seminars and workshops for parents and teachers.
- In-person events and social opportunities for gifted children, families and parents.
- Free telephone support.
- Affiliate membership to the AAEGT.
Membership costs.
Membership of the Tasmanian Association for the Gifted is:
- $50 a year for individuals and families
- $75 a year for schools and organisations (up to 5 staff members may register for information sessions / TAG events using the organisation email address and pay member pricing)
All memberships are an annual charge.