Curriculum Development for Education Of the Talented

This course examines curriculum processes necessary for providing a differentiated education for the talented. Students will analyze and develop instructional materials based on useful and research-based models for differentiating instruction with respect to student readiness, knowledge, and skill level. Students will utilize processes for selecting, adapting, or creating a variety of differentiated curricula, and will analyze and develop instructional processes for providing an extension or replacement of the general education curricula and to support critical and creative thinking skills. Utilizing a variety of assessment sources to measure and monitor gifted student growth, students will analyze and write quality WEP goals. Students will continue to develop their personal educational philosophy for teaching gifted students. This course fulfills state requirements for the Ohio Intervention Specialist/Gifted Endorsement.