Collaboration through Regional Partnerships
Local gifted and talented partnerships.
Gifted and talented partnerships share good practice and provide activities to improve the quality of provision for students and practitioners.
Each regional partnership brings together all local authorities within the region, NAGTY's HE Gateway partners and other key stakeholders interested in improving gifted and talented education. They work collaboratively and creatively to remove barriers to progress and to improve teaching and learning for gifted and talented students of all ages.
Each Partnership has a broad remit to support the improvement of G&T teaching and learning but the key aims are to:
- build strong links between regional players, especially the Government Office, the new regional structures of the National Strategies, higher education institutions and the regional arms of relevant national non-educational organisations based in them;
- ensure that pupils aged 11-19 in the top 5% in the region, are identified and encouraged to register with NAGTY;
- provide additional learning opportunities for gifted and talented pupils of all ages and NAGTY members through higher education institutions in the region and others;
- support those schools and local authorities who are in most need of help;
- establish regional support structures and develop G&T provision in all the schools in the region, using the G&T Institutional and Classroom Quality Standards as their main tools; and
- stimulate the supply of professional development for teachers, including opportunities to share good practice and research.
The key measures of success for the G&T Regional Partnerships are improvement to pupil outcomes, contribution to performance against NAGTY strategic priorities and meeting the objectives of the national G&T programme.
In addition each regional partnership supports the cross cutting National Rural G&T Network which aims to ensure that all programmes take into account issues of rurality.
How to get involved: Contact the chair of your regional partnership, in London this is London Gifted & Talented, or Joanne Steele who leads the National Rural Network.
Links
Further information about the regional partnerships is available at:
http://www2.teachernet.gov.uk/gat/
