ALEXANDRA PRIMARY LEARNERS: Our Gifted Education Teacher Development Network will assist teachers with identifying the gifted child in a third grade classroom of 59 learners. Yes, 59!!

What a joy to experience the presence of eager learners

Enthusiastic Teacher and School Administrator/Prinicpal at this Alexandra township primary school

Dept of Education Administrator and Gifted Network member have the learners’ attention

Such eagerness to have our picture taken

Eager to tell our story

Eager to sing for our visitors

We love reading books

I was reading 4th grade books in the 1st grade

Above is the outside of our school building. Last week 75 homes/shacks in our Alexandra township were destroyed by fire. A stove in one of the neighboring shacks where many of us live was carelessly kicked over.

HILBROW PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LEARNERS: Exchange student-teachers needed in Hilbrow

Standing with high schoolers

High School students in Hilbrow area

Everyone wears a uniform

Primary School Playyard–still Hilbrow area

Primary School classroom

Primary School computer lab

Another Primary School in Hilbrow

Primary school learners in the queue

Teacher and learners

Primary schoolers learners and visitor

School Principal & learners sing “Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika” for visitors

I would have loved living in dorm rooms like these at Creighton University, back in the day.

The academy’s library (my favourite place anywhere) is designed for the encouragement of independent reading. If you entered the school as a non-reader of great books it wouldn’t be long before you became an avid reader. Oprah Winfrey’s love of books and reading is so apparent in the shelving layout. A fireplace in Creighton’s library would have been a welcomed addition too.

Beaulieu Prep Headmistress

My new Arlarm Clock….the Hadida Bird. Don’t worry you are not missing anything.

First snow in Johannesburg in 26 years

Entertainment at Moyo’s–Melrose Arch

Town Church—back from Kruger

Saturday Night Live: At the Market Place Theatre to see Athol Fugard’s “Victory”

My fourth Safari in Southern Africa and what do you know, I finally get to see lions in their natural environment. But, I prayed that our paths would not cross on my first ever walking safari. The walking safari included guides identifying unique birds, plant life and tracking animals; and yes, tracking them by the dung and toilet holes. And no, I did not wear this red vest on foot. LOL.

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Emmerentia Primary

High School Girls at Apartheid Museum

Playing in Soweto

NAGC Website Question?

What kind of training does a teacher need to work with gifted students?

• What does the research show?

• In what year was the NAGC founded?

• In what year was the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court Case settled?

Please do not answer these questions here. However, you may use the blog to briefly discuss the topic or solicit questions and responses. Click onto comments below.