LECT working in Partnership with Young Gifted and Talented

LECT is organising a series of four Study Visits for the Young Gifted and Talented programme (YG&T) run by CfBT Education Trust. The teachers going on the visits were selected through a national YG&T Prize Draw for Leading Teachers.

The aim is to recognise Leading Teachers and their contribution to G&T education nationwide. By visiting the programmes in other countries, we hope the Leading Teachers will be able to participate in a knowledge exchange of effective whole-school G&T provision.

The role of the Leading Teacher for G&T is to lead other colleagues in identifying, providing and monitoring teaching and learning across the school’s gifted and talented cohort.

The international visits are being managed by LECT and are taking place during May 2009 to Hungary, USA, South Africa and China. LECT are working in partnership with the Research Department at CfBT on a piece of international research from the visits, which will be published in the Autumn.

A successful pre-visit meeting event was held for all involved on Friday 20th March.

Look out for updates on the visits on the YG&T blog sites here