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.
Course details
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Content areas:
- Myths and stereotypes
- Gagné’s differentiated model of giftedness and talent
- Characteristics of intellectually gifted students
- Identification of gifted students
- Behavioural characteristics of gifted and talented students
- Underachievement
- Ability grouping
- Acceleration
- Distinguishing myths from realities: research
- Curriculum models: differentiation
- Assessment
- Instructional strategies
- Lesson plan: application
- This course is NESA accredited and can be used for mandatory accreditation hours.
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 dates
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.
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2025 On-campus dates
Dates Format Register 18 & 19 June Face-to-face Click here 23 & 24 July Face-to-face Click here 20 & 21 August Face-to-face Click here 3 & 4 September Face-to-face Click here 15 & 16 October Face-to-face Click here 12 & 13 November Face-to-face Click here 3 & 4 December Face-to-face Click here All sessions are 8:30am to 5:30pm for 2 days and held at UNSW Sydney in Kensington unless otherwise stated.
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2025 Online dates
Dates
Format
Register 4 & 5 June Online
Click here 30 & 31 July Online
Click here 27 & 28 August Online
Click here 17 & 18 September Online
Click here 29 & 30 October Online
Click here 19 & 20 November Online
Click here All sessions are 8:30am to 5:30pm for 2 days and held online.
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GERRIC often partners with the Association of Independent Schools of Western Australia (AISWA) to deliver a Mini-COGE in Perth. To be notified of the next available dates, please add your name to the waitlist here.
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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 waitlist here.
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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 by contacting us.