CLEAR Model/ Curriculum Compacting
Acceleration
Differentiation
Enrichment/ Interventions for Diverse Populations
100
Curriculum Compacting is used to solve the problem of
Students getting frustrated
100
What is an example of Acceleration?

Allowing students to begin school before the age established through district policies

Moving through two grades in a single year

Skipping a grade level

Entering high school or college before the age typically permitted

100
True or False: As the degree of differentiation increases, there are less numbers of students seen.
True


Many mildly gifted students are seen whereas profoundly gifted students are rarely seen.

100
It is important to be sensitive to what?
Cultural values
200
How can you figure out what a student knows about a topic or chapter?
A formal test or a one-on-one conversation about the subject
200
Name a type of Acceleration

Content Based Acceleration or Curriculum Flexibility

200
What are 3 aspects of Curriculum Design?
Depth


Complexity

Materials Selection

200
What is one thing you can do to teach students from non dominant cultures who are gifted and talented?

Provide separate instructional opportunities for students with the same developmental profiles.  

Use technology to aid in transmission of learning 

Provide small-group and individual counseling, mentorships, and internships to emphasize individual attention as well as cognitive issues of development

Focus on the arts as a therapeutic intervention as well as a creative and expressive outlet

Use materials rich in ideas and imagination coupled with an emphasis on higher-level skills. 


300

What ensures that students are grasping essential concepts but are not dwelling on material already mastered?

Continual Formative Assessment
300

True or false: Acceleration assumes that different students of the same age are at the same level of learning

False

Acceleration assumes that different students of the same age are at different levels of learning within and across learning areas

300
What is Problem-Based Learning?

Method in which students encounter a real-world problem designed by the teacher to address key concepts


300

Some interventions that have been successful to students who are gifted and economically disadvantaged include early attention to (Name at least 2)

Needs

Family involvement

Use of effective instructional and leadership strategies

Experiential learning approaches

Encouragement of self-expression

Community involvement

Counseling efforts

Building on strengths


400
What does a rich curriculum do?
Incorporates a wide range of materials and experiences
400
Explain Curriculum Flexibility

-Some students may need to advance quickly in Math or English but not in other subject areas

-Makes learning options responsive to learner needs and contextual demands

-This flexibility is crucial to learners who are gifted in the verbal, scientific, and artistic areas

400
What can teachers differentiate during their instruction?
Content, Process, Product

(Learning Environment)

400
What is Enrichment?

-The extension of regular curriculum with different examples and associations that build complex ideas

-An appropriate substitute for material that is too basic for some students’ skill levels

-Provides students with the chance to acquire mastery of standards at a deeper level than what is outlined in the required curriculum


500
Name one stage of Curriculum Compacting

-the goals of an instructional unit are identified

-student mastery of all or part of the goals is documented

-alternative instruction is provided as appropriate

500

Acceleration advances learners through levels of curriculum and programs according to what?

Individual achievement and performance
500
What does students creating products or critiquing their own work provide?
A detailed picture of individual progress toward specific education goals
500
What does enrichment encourage?
Student creativity and the development of critical thinking skills
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