Curriculum for Gifted Students

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Curriculum for Gifted Students

• Gifted Education is a part of general education
  reform, not an endeavor separate from it." 
• Baska, College of William and Mary
• There is no contradiction between effective
  standards-based instruction and differentiation
  for gifted learners. Curriculum tells us what to
  teach differentiation tells us how." 
• Tomlinson, University of Virginia

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The CIA

• Curriculum
• Instruction
• Assessment

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Teaching Gifted and Talented

• All teachers are teachers of the gifted.
• Curriculum for Gifted Must Be Standards Based
• Curriculum for Gifted Must Incorporate Best
  Practice Research

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Anderson FiveApproved Curriculum Units

• Elementary Units for Gifted
• Grades 3-5
• 16 Standards Based Interdisciplinary Units
• Adjustable Pacing for Approved Models

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South Carolina State Approved Models

• Magnet Program for Gifted
• Full Time Self-Contained
• Subject Specific Class
• Resource Pull-out Model

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The Integrated Content Model

• Meets all South Carolina Regulations
• Incorporates All Best Practice Recommendations
• South Carolina Best Practices Manual
• South Carolina Consortium for Gifted Education
• National Association for Gifted Children
  Standards
• National Research Center for Gifted Education
• NCATE

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Provides Non-Negotiable Differentiation for
Gifted Students

• Content
• Process
• Product
• Learning Environment
• Assessment

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Content

• Standards-Based Extension Curriculum
• Confluent (Enrichment Acceleration)
• Interdisciplinary themes/generalizations
• Concept-based
• Advanced content
• Depth, Breadth, Complexity
• Novelty and Sophistication

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Process

• Skill-based Standards and Processes
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Creative Thinking Skills
• Multiple Graphic Organizers
• Student Talk-Discussion
• Research Skills
• Rigor and Relevance
• Communication Skills
• Collaboration Skills

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Product

• Variety of Options
• Tiered for Performance Levels
• Interest Based
• Student Choice
• Learning Styles and Modalities

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Learning Environment

• Non-judgmental
• Flexible Grouping
• Student-centered
• Teacher as Facilitator
• Technology Rich
• Multiple Resources

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Assessment

• Non-Negotiable Pre-Assessment
• Continuous
• Teacher, Peer and Self
• Pre-Determined Criteria
• Authentic Processes

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Learning in the Digital Age

• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Problem Definition
• Solution Finding
• Challenge and Change
• Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes
  back to its original dimensions.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes