Unlocking the Potential of Gifted Minds
Supporting all students to glow and grow
We believe in cultivating curiosity
Marvellous Minds empowers, mentors, and guides the educators and parents of this generation's high-ability and gifted students to enable them to reach their full potential.
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Identifying and assessing gifted and talented students: I support educators to develop fair and inclusive ways to identify and assess high potential/gifted and talented students. This includes creating evidence-based tools and strategies that ensure that the full spectrum of gifted and talented students have the opportunity to develop their strengths and abilities.
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Developing curriculum and instruction for gifted and talented students: I coach and mentor educators to be able to meet the unique learning needs of their high potential/gifted and talented students. This involves creating differentiated instruction, enrichment activities, and acceleration options to help these students reach their full potential.
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Providing professional development for educators: I provide half-day and full-day professional learning to enable educators to learn more about gifted and talented students and how to best serve them. My professional development helps teachers gain the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to effectively support these students.
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Developing and evaluating gifted and talented programs: My consultancy services are focused on embedding critical and creative thinking into programs. I support schools and districts to ensure that their high potential/gifted and talented programs are meeting the needs of students and providing appropriate challenges and support. I help with the development, implementation, and evaluation of these programs.
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Building partnerships with parents and the community: I coach and mentor educators to work with parents and community members to provide information and support for gifted and talented students. Together we build partnerships, to create a network of support for these students that extends beyond the classroom.
Tuesday, May 2 | 12.30 - 2.00pm | Webinar
Learning Consultancy Programs
Our programs can be tailored for individual schools for leadership teams, coordinators, leading teachers or whole school.
About Pamela Burton
Pamela Burton’s interest, experience, and expertise in agile and life-long learning is reflected in her broad consulting career. She is recognised as a strategist in pedagogy, curriculum design, and assessment for Gifted and Talented /High Ability learners. Pamela coaches and mentors educators to transform learning through contemporary pedagogy and curriculum design that is aligned with national and state standards. She helps schools create learning programs that are reflective of the context and vision of each school community.
Pam has lectured in Gifted and Talented Education at Deakin University and in 2021 designed and delivered online workshops for High Ability Practice Leaders across Victorian primary and secondary schools for the Student Excellence section of the Department of Education and Training.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Marvellous minds consultancy services can be tailored to meet the unique needs of high-ability and gifted students in a variety of ways, including personalised assessments and recommendations, high-ability and gifted program development including enrichment, differentiation and accelerated program design, customised coaching and mentoring, and opportunities for networking and collaboration. These tailored services can help support the ongoing growth and development of these students and help them reach their potential.
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A high-ability/gifted and talented program is needed in schools to provide specialised support and resources for high-potential students, promote differentiation and personalized learning, and support the ongoing growth and development of these students. By investing in these programs, schools can help ensure that all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential and make a positive impact on the world.
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Implementing a gifted and talented program can lead to increased academic achievement, student motivation and engagement, differentiation and personalised learning, and social and emotional well-being. It can also help your school attract and retain high-ability students and families, leading to increased diversity and enrichment for the school community as a whole.
OUR MISSION
Pamela strives to provide innovative, tailored advice, support and resources to help our community of high-potential learners reach their aspirations with confidence. To achieve this outcome she believes in fostering meaningful connections through knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration.
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
– Ryunosuke Satoro
What participants say…
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Julie Myers - College Principal
I thoroughly enjoy having Pam in to work with my staff as she models exceptional qualities. What is even more amazing is that she can sustain this all day even at 5pm after starting at 8.00am. Pamela is an excellent listener with great capacity for empathy. She has contextual awareness through her varied past experiences and depth of educational issues.
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Jan Adamson - Principal
Pam was highly recommended to our Leadership Team as an experienced consultant in curriculum planning and implementation particularly in the area of gifted and talented education. She was engaged to assist the Leadership Team and staff in curriculum planning, and implementation as we expanded from a P-6 School to a P-9 College in 2010.
Pam has been instrumental in working with our Leadership Team and staff (P-9) including the development and implementation of our Explicit Teaching Model and in working collaboratively with staff across faculties in curriculum planning (contemporary programs) and implementation for our Year 7-9 programs.
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Dana Kendall-Sanders
Pam is a creative and practical educator. Her approach to everything she does is professional and she is well known for carefully tailoring her presentations to suit her audience. She is constantly developing and improving her skills, adopting and exhibiting best practice in all tasks she undertakes. What I really admire about her is that she practises what she preaches. Her presentations reflect the theory that she espouses, using the methods she wants her audience to embrace. She confidently models her theory, supporting individual teachers in the classroom and taking on classroom demonstrations at every opportunity. She is a team player who makes it her business to get the most out of those with whom she works.
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Derek Harding
Pam has been fantastic for my development as a graduate teacher. Together we have built a year 7-9 Maths curriculum, as well as other units of work, and she has been especially effective at helping me explore the new Australian curriculum. She has supported, guided and given me ideas to build a curriculum that I am proud of and I am very fortunate to have had her input so early in my career.
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Chris Robarts - Educational Consultant
Pam Burton is a insightful and patient woman with the precious ability to reflect on and draw lessons from rich life experience. She respectfully engages and challenges those with whom she works, always building excitement about what the future may hold. I come away inspired and energised after working with Pam. - truly blessed.
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Bill Slatter
I have found Pam to be an outstanding educationalist. She has a very sound knowledge of the current directions in contemporary education and she has the wisdom and experience to assist school leaders in improving the educational outcomes for all students in their schools.
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Jess Hocking
Each time Pam visited our small country school she brought fresh eyes and vibrant enthusiasm. With this, she enabled staff to see themselves, each other and the students more clearly and she also inspired staff to try new things.
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Get in Touch
We would love to hear from you. If you have any question call Pam on 0421 567 319 or complete the form below.