Gifted and Talented Education Home. The New South Wales government aims to identify gifted and talented students and to maximise their learning outcomes in all public schools.
Gifted and talented students are found in all communities regardless of their ethnic, cultural or socio-economic backgrounds. The gifted population includes students who are underachieving and who have disabilities. The Policy and implementation strategies for the education of gifted and talented students (revised 2004) is available at The companion document to the revised policy Guidelines for the use of strategies to support gifted and talented students (pdf 270kb) outlines some of the strategies that can be used to improve the outcomes for gifted and talented students. Gifted Education Professional Development Package. High Achiever, Gifted Learner, CreativeThinker. Identification of gifted students is clouded when concerned adults misinterpret high achievement as giftedness.
High-achieving students are noticed for their on-time, neat, well-developed, and correct learning products. Adults comment on these students' consistent high grades and note how well they acclimate to class procedures and discussions. Some adults assume these students are gifted because their school-appropriate behaviors and products surface above the typical responses of grade-level students.