School libraries and gifted students: Guiding inquiring minds

Bridget Forster

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2021), Perspectives: Local

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2021)

School libraries and gifted students: Guiding inquiring minds

Perspectives: Local

Published 2021-09-16

Bridget Forster⁺⁻

Bridget Forster

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Kulthau
School
Libraries
Inquiry
Method
Students

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School libraries and gifted students: Guiding inquiring minds. (2021). Synergy, 19(2). https://slav.vic.edu.au/index.php/Synergy/article/view/529

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Bridget Forster outlines the very successful online program at Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School that supported students to explore and develop a new skill across a ten week period. Using The Kulthau inquiry method to support their process the gifted and talented students investigated a skill with the aid of an expert as mentor. This work received the 2020 SLAV Innovators Grant.

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