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Celebrating Success - From the Horses' Mouths

Celebrate Gifted Aotearoa NZ: Catalysts of Success is a great theme for Gifted Awareness Week 2018. It's positive, hopeful, reflective and fun!  This theme combines some interesting ideas, and I asked my   MindPlus  classes (one-day-a-week specialist programme for gifted learners, part of the  New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education ) what they thought about this theme for Gifted Awareness Week .  So here come some ideas from the horses' mouths...  Firstly,  celebrating .  Gifted Awareness Week is indeed a week of celebration for those of us who are connected to gifted education, as learners, parents, teachers, or as interested parties. It gives us all of a specific time and reason to recognise and feel proud of our gifted learners. Having this specific time helps us to get past some of the reasons why gifted learners (and perhaps also their parents) can be reluctant to celebrate their success.  Here are some of the things my students said:  ⁃ “Sometimes my suc