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Pam Lyons
BSc, La Trobe, G Dip Ed, Melb, G Dip Special Ed and Human Services (Distinction)

Coordinator Able Learners’ Enrichment Program

Room/Location: 3.07 Education
Ph: 5444 7441
Fx: 5444 7800
Email: p.lyons@latrobe.edu.au

Research Interests

Pam is a qualified secondary science teacher with post graduate qualifications in Special Education and Human Services, completing two research projects in gifted education as part of this qualification.

Pam has been involved in the field of gifted education since 1998. She has advocated for gifted children in schools in Melbourne since 1998 and continues this advocacy in schools in rural Victoria. Pam has coordinated the Yarra Plenty Gifted Support Group, working closely with the local DE&T teachers’ network providing professional development for teachers and professionals, information sessions for parents, and enrichment activities for children. In 1999 she was invited and participated in the Department of Education’s invitational symposium to review the ‘Bright Futures’ Gifted Education Policy, and in 2001 appeared before the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Committee, Melbourne hearing, for their inquiry into the education of gifted children.

As part of the Able Learners’ Enrichment Program she convened the “Giftedness and the Brain” conference held in Bendigo at the end of November 2005.

Associations

• Committee member of the Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children
• Victorian Director of the Australian Association for the Education of Gifted and Talented