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Enhance your differentiation skills and ability to cater to gifted learners

GERRIC’s Mini-COGE courses are practical professional development for educators to support high potential and gifted students. High potential students are not necessarily high achievers; we focus on how to engage and support these students to reach their potential.

The Mini-COGE will help you to;

  • identify gifted, high potential and talented students;
  • differentiate the curriculum for high potential students;
  • implement ability grouping or acceleration;
  • understand gifted education research and best practices; and
  • develop an existing (or create a new) unit of work to best suit the needs of the differentiated classroom and gifted students.

The unit of work allows you to implement practical changes to curriculum, assessment and pedagogy, receive feedback from other educators and the GERRIC academic presenter, and provide ongoing impact to you and your students.

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Course details

  • Content areas:

    • Myths and stereotypes
    • Gagné’sÌýdifferentiated model of giftednessÌýandÌýtalent
    • Characteristics of intellectuallyÌýgifted students
    • Identification ofÌýgiftedÌýstudents
    • BehaviouralÌýcharacteristics of gifted andÌýtalentedÌýstudents
    • UnderachievementÌý
    • AbilityÌýgroupingÌý
    • AccelerationÌý
    • Distinguishing myths from realities:Ìýresearch
    • Curriculum models:Ìýdifferentiation
    • Assessment
    • InstructionalÌýstrategiesÌý
    • Lesson plan: application
    • This course is NESA accredited and can be used for mandatory accreditation hours.Ìý

Professional development for your school

Our in-service sessions are delivered face to face or online to individual or clusters of schools in Australia.

Please contact the GERRIC office at gerric@unsw.edu.au to discuss the different options available for us to deliver a program to meet the needs of your school staff and student population. We will travel anywhere in Australia or the world.

Session datesÌý

Tickets for our 2025 Mini-COGE courses are now available through our new event management platform, Swoogo.

Swoogo will enhance your ticket purchasing experience, offering the flexibility to select individual or group bookings, and choose your preferred payment method—credit card or invoicing. Additionally, you can now secure group tickets in advance and provide attendee details at a later date.

Course dates for both our Face-to-Face and online sessions are listed below. Select the click here link under register to purchase your tickets.Ìý

  • 2025 On-campus dates

    DatesÌý FormatÌý Register
    12 & 13 February Face-to-face
    19 & 20 March Face-to-face
    30 April & 1 MayÌý Face-to-face
    21 & 22 May Face-to-face
    18 & 19 June Face-to-face
    23 & 24 July Face-to-face
    20 & 21 August Face-to-face
    3 & 4 September Face-to-face
    15 & 16 October Face-to-face
    12 & 13 November Face-to-face
    3 & 4 December Face-to-face

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    All sessions are 8:30am to 5:30pm for 2 days and held at Â鶹Éçmadou Sydney in KensingtonÌýunless otherwise stated.

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  • 2025 Online dates

    Dates

    Format

    Register

    23 & 24 January

    Online

    19 & 20 FebruaryÌý

    Online

    26 & 27 March

    Online

    7 & 8 May

    Online

    4 & 5 June

    Online

    30 & 31 July

    Online

    27 & 28 AugustÌý

    Online

    17 & 18 September

    Online

    29 & 30 October

    Online

    19 & 20 November

    Online

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    All sessions are 8:30am to 5:30pm for 2 days and held online.

  • GERRIC often partners with the Association ofÌýIndependent Schools of Western Australia (AISWA) to deliver aÌýMini-COGE in Perth.ÌýTo be notified of the next available dates, please add your name to the waitlist .Ìý

  • GERRIC offers the Mini-COGE in Queensland a few times each year. To be notified of the next available dates, please add your name to the waitlistÌý.Ìý

  • With presenters based in NSW, WA and QLD, GERRIC is ready to bring the Mini-COGE all across Australia. In-service bookings are now open for all dates in 2024. When you book an in-service with GERRIC, we work with you to choose the best dates and format to meet your school's needs. Reserve your in-service now byÌýcontacting us.