For Children

What can this association do for children?

The sole purpose of the VAGTC is to support gifted and talented children in Victoria to achieve their true potential by actively advocating on their behalf.

The work of the VAGTC includes:

• Providing professional activities that enable schools and teachers to assist children to discover relevance and excitement in their learning.
• Showcasing children’s’ achievements in publications, at conferences and workshops, and in the wider community.
• Hosting competitions, which allow gifted and talented children to achieve and exhibit their particular strengths.
• Heightening the communities’ awareness of the educational, social and emotional needs of gifted and talented children.
• Linking agencies and families, to facilitate tangible assistance to gifted and talented children as appropriate.
• Advertising educational activities that engage gifted children, and facilitate their meeting of like minded friends.
• Providing a library that parent members and their children may access in order to learn about the nature of giftedness.