User:Marynz/World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day
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The inaugural World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day will be held on 9 August 2011. This will fall on the second day of the 19th Biennial World Conference of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. As a sign of the increasing international connectedness of the gifted education and advocacy community across a variety of social media platforms, the World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day was first announced via Facebook:
WORLD GIFTED & TALENTED AWARENESS DAY-- Following the Success of the EU Talent Day taking place this weekend (Sat. April 9th), which gave rise to the subsequent establishment of a National Gifted and Talented Awareness Day in Ireland (April the 8th), along with the sharing of information on/of other, similar initiatives established in a good number of other countries around the world; the support in numbers shown from this community for a call for a World Gifted & Talented Awarness Day, has led to a positive outcome. I am pleased to announce that the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) has decided to support this call by establishing an official WORLD GIFTED & TALENTED AWARENESS DAY. This year it will take place on the second day of the WCGTC conference in Prague, or the 9th of August. Details will follow in due course. [1]
The call for a global event in connection with gifted education and advocacy arose largely from online discussions[2][3][4], and the announcement by the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children was a response to this.
The World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day aims to extend the success and impact of other gifted awareness events, including New Zealand Gifted Awareness Week, National Gifted Education Awareness Day in Ireland, and EU Talent Day. These events have raised awareness of the needs of gifted children, and of the services and provisions that are needed or available to meet these needs. The existing gifted awareness events have also had some success in gaining acknowledgement from governments.
The lead-up to the World Gifted & Talented Awareness Day will include an international gifted education photoquotes campaign. Inspired by a similar campaign in the Purpose Education movement[5], this campaign aims to create an image bank showcasing quotations that succinctly explain the importance of key concepts within gifted education. Images will have Creative Commons licenses so that they can be used widely by people advocating for more appropriate educational provision for gifted and talented children.
References
- ^ L. Graves, Secretary, on behalf of WCGTC. "WORLD GIFTED & TALENTED AWARENESS DAY".
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External links
- The 19th Biennial World Conference of the WCGTC
- EU Talent Day
- Budapest Declaration on Talent Support
- National Gifted Education Awareness Day in Ireland
- Gifted Online's New Zealand Gifted Awareness Week page
- giftEDnz's New Zealand Gifted Awareness Week page
- The Purpose Education Photoquotes project
- The Gifted Education Photoquotes project