The number of Gifted Learners with Disability (GLD) being placed in selective high schools is increasing. Currently, selective high schools have varied and limited information about students at the enrolment stage and limited resources at their disposal. Individual schools have often been left to develop their own processes, resulting in a system wide approach that lacks consistency, with limited access to resources at a systems level that could support them. The NSW Department of Education (DoE) High Performing Students Program (HPSP) has reviewed research and consulted extensively with community groups, parents, schools and internal groups to understand how we can best deliver a process that is consistent, evidence based and targeted to support our GLD as they transition from primary school to a selective high school. In this presentation we will outline a pilot program commencing later this year that has students, parents, teachers and schools playing an integral role in the evolution of a best practice model that aims to anticipate and then effectively meet the transition support needs of GLD through the use of evidence-based processes being described in literature and through practices currently employed by schools, with access to shared, quality resources. It will also address ways that we can provide better awareness for students and their families of the ways we support students with complex needs, so that those students and their families have confidence in our ability to set those students up for success. 

School Level: Primary & Secondary

Level of Expertise: All

Role/s of the Audience: All