Wellington+draft+Action+Plan

**Date: 25 March 2011** **Updated:** ||
 * **Wellington Regional Strategy Group cluster** **2011 action plan**

· Develop strategies specific to their region to improve education for gifted and talented students: · Become familiar with the GATE website and associated smart tools, and online community · Align approaches to GATE in schools with Ka Hikitia, the Pasifika Education Plan, NCEA, National Standards and areas of government priority · Grow coherence and coordination of approaches between schools and: o Professional Learning and Development providers, Ministry regional education and performance groups (EPGs), GAT stakeholder providers , Local industry and businesses · Explore ways of disseminating and sustaining best practice within the region, including regional symposia and online communities · Identify and support potential schools which may take a regional cluster leadership role · Contribute to and attend the National GATE hui || ** To establish a shared understanding of giftedness from ECE to secondary and then develop a common approach to how to implement this across the region ** ** To provide grassroots professional development for teachers to equip them to communicate and work with parents ** ** To develop a checklist of gifted behaviours for clustering – with a social focus ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ====Purpose of the RSG====
 * ** Government Priorities ** || ** Regional strategic plan and associated activities ** || ** Responsible ** || ** Timeframe ** || ** Success indicators ** || ** Review of outcomes ** ||
 * Raising the achievement of gifted and talented students; particularly Maori and Pasifika students in rural and/or low socio-economic areas || ** To share information across networks- particularly to include parents **
 * Building whole school capability in a sustainable way that allows schools to self-manage their requirements under National Administrations Guideline 1 (iii) c || ** To develop a basic toolkit and associated professional development on building children’s strengths without the boundaries of year groups ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Support the implementation of National Standards and gathering of baseline data that allows for the longitudinal tracking of students’ achievement || **To protect GATE from National Standards **

** To expand the use of MyPortfolio across all sectors as a holistic assessment tool eg Kei Tua of te Pae is an example of ECE talking to primary and is a very successful model – expand this to transition from primary to secondary ** ||  ||   ||   ||   || · The NZ curriculum (2007) and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa · Ka Hikitia 2008- 2012 · Pasifika Education Plan 2008-2012 || ** For all schools and Early Childhood Centres to have policy and direction on meeting education needs of all ability and all differences –to empower teachers to recognise giftedness ** ** To refine our understanding of Maori and Pasifika GATE and support schools with appropriate strategies ** ||  ||   ||   ||   || ** To develop an approach to GATE from the perspective of the child and family –they are the one continuous element in the development of the gifted child. ** ** To enable teachers to share curriculum expertise cross-sector to allow participation from children who are gifted ** ** To develop an online collaboration space for mentoring and connecting like-minded people **
 * Support the implementation of
 * Collaborative service delivery across numerous providers that provides a continuum of support (driving whole school capability) || ** To develop close links between ECEs, primary and secondary schools. **

** To develop a database of support people and organisations (like Future inTech) especially people who can mentor and enrich enquiry –possibly retired people who have a specialist interest, expertise who could be available to schools across a small region eg Tawa ** ** RSA; churches etc ** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||