Terms
Enrichment
activities that add or go beyond the existing curriculum
Affective Curriculum –
focuses on the person/social awareness and adjustment and includes the study of values, attitudes, and self.
Learning Environment
the setting which encourages students to engage their abilities to the greatest extent possible, including taking risks, and building knowledge and skills in what is perceived as a safe, flexible, environment.
What is it called when students can move in and out of various grouping patterns?
Flexible Grouping
Pacing
the speed at which content is presented and instruction delivered.
Curriculum Compacting
permitting a student to exchange instructional time for other learning experiences, once he/she has demonstrated mastery of the lesson being covered.
Tiered Assignments
a differentiated instructional strategy in which all students work toward the same goal, but activities are geared toward each student’s level of understanding.
Why is process important in the classroom?
Gifted students need to use higher order thinking in the classroom and usually enjoy finding a solution to problems
Process
promoting creativity and higher level cognitive skills and encouraging productive use and management of the knowledge mastered by students facilitated by incorporating the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, creative thinking, openendedness, group interaction, variable pacing, variety of tasks accommodating different learning styles, debriefing, and freedom of choice.
Why is it important to understand Affective Curriculum?
So you can understand which type of learner students are and individualize their education plan
Content
richer, more diverse, organized knowledge base facilitated by encouraging abstractness, complexity, variety, and inquiry.
True or False: All gifted students should be paced at the same time
False
Products
demonstration of mastery reflecting student’s potential incorporating real problems, appropriate audiences, time management skills, manipulation of information, previously established criteria, and authentic self and audience evaluation.
Why is Curriculum Compacting important?
It can avoid boredom in students
Complexity
the ability to perceive “multitudinous relationships” in all things leading to a need for precise facts and exactitude resulting in a need for constant mental stimulation and the possibility of argumentative behavior due to demand for accuracy, exactness, and precision of thought.
Why should Tiered Assignments be used in a classroom?
Students can work at different paces at ease without the fear of failure.
Complexity
the ability to perceive “multitudinous relationships” in all things leading to a need for precise facts and exactitude resulting in a need for constant mental stimulation and the possibility of argumentative behavior due to demand for accuracy, exactness, and precision of thought.
Scaffolding
an instructional technique whereby the teacher models the desired learning strategy or task, than gradually shifts responsibility to the students