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This homepage outlines the exemplary educational model called Night of the Notables (or variously, Festival of the Famous or Evening of Eagles) held in Australian schools to cater primarily for gifted and talented adolescents. Night of the Notables features suitable role models for gifted and talented children.
IN SUPPORT
20/09/2009 Hi Greg, We just held our schools first ever Night of the Notables and it was BRILLIANT!
Thank you so much for your program. It has been requested to be an annual event at our school.I am using the next two weeks of term to evaluated, complete assessment, make an imovie, scrapbook etc.
"The community is a valuable source of adult role models, mentors and moral exemplars, and individuals who pursue their lives and work with passion who can guide the young gifted person to the development of his or her own passions (deep interests)" (Linda K Silverman, 1993:72).
"Senseless killings and unexplained sufferings are our everyday TV diet. To counter this, we need outstanding examples of moral uprightness and self sacrifice to encourage us to live for the greater good." by DW a graduate of Night of the Notables, now in Year 12.
"The thing I found most appealing was how the project didn't stop at handing in a paper. For the first time, I was able to take the next step and get into the shoes of my notable and give the information I had acquired to the general public." Year 8 Notables student
Night of the Notables is inclusive, engaging and enabling.
Night of the Notables™ is an inclusive program for gifted and talented and everyone. It has received an enthusiastic response. In it, many optimal features of gifted education (demanding research skills, longer time spans, deeper studies, wider research, flexible pacing, integrated study across the subjects, advanced communication skills, personal creativity) are featured.
Our Night of the Notables program serves and nurtures the autonomous learner. The student works at his or her own pace and to his own depth, free to move where he wishes, working within his own time frame, comfortable within his own learning style and encouraged to be creative about the products of learning. Night of the Notables shows the autonomous learner at work to best effect.
Better learning models start from the learner, they recognise learners' characteristics, their needs, their learning styles, and encourage discovery, synthesis and creativity. Longer time spans, wider resources, demanding research skills, deeper studies, wider research, flexible pacing, integrated study across school subjects, advanced communication skills and personal creativity are valued elements of better learning programs.
Practices that encourage student input, sharing of resources and a synthetic approach seem to be better learning-for-life models; the skills are self developed, reinforced and applied by the learner with minimal tutor supervision. In these models, skills transference seems more likely to occur. Because it features these qualities, Night of the Notables is a best practice model. It is found to be most suitable for Years 6-8.
USING THE AUTONOMOUS LEARNER MODEL (ALM)
"To us, this was Utopia - . . . . It became evident that the Autonomous Learner Model is an effective way to implement a gifted education programme in the regular classroom. Our experience underlined the value of the model's holistic approach, and its concern with the social and emotional growth of all students, as well as their intellectual development ."
Teachers Jill Bitmead and Pam Robertson (1993) after visiting Colorado to see the Betts' Autonomous Learner Model in regular classrooms.
"Gifted need real life problem solving activities. In these, the role of the teacher changes from being one who models thinking (demonstrates metacognitive reflection, skills and procedures), to being one who coaches (helps, monitors, directs and challenges), then to being one who then scaffolds (sets frameworks, modulates, reflects and organises), and finally being one who fades (becomes a member of the group, becomes an occasional resource for information and procedure). This diminishing role of the tutor reflects the learner's increasingly taking control of this own learning and his/her increasing autonomy as a learner."
At your own Night of the Notables, you
could meet:
Alexander Fleming, Alexander the Great, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Archimedes, Robert Browning, Carl Sagan, Charles Babbage, Charles Chaplin, Charles Kingsford Smith, Christopher Columbus, Samuel Coleridge, Descartes, Ian Calder, Florence Nightingale, Fred Hollows, Gene Kelly, Hubert Opperman, Ira Gershwin, Isaac Asimov, Laurens van der Post, Marco Polo, Matthew Flinders, Mozart, Allan Border, Beethoven, Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Confucius, Dennis Lillee, Douglas Mawson, Albert Einstein, Gustav Flaubert, Gandhi, Greg Norman, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, Karl Benz, Leonardo, Linus Pauling, Margaret Thatcher, May Gibbs, Michael Jordan, Michelangelo, Nehru, Phillip Law, Richard Dawkins, Shakespeare, Sun Yat-sen, Thomas Edison, Vincent van Gogh, William Booth, . . . .
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