Frameworks for the Gifted Curriculum

Meeting the characteristics and needs of the intellectually gifted learner requires differential treatments in curriculum and instructional patterns of delivery.  Because the intellectually gifted learner has special needs in both cognitive and affective areas, so must the curriculum.  In working with the Mississippi Department of Education’s suggested outcomes, we implement the following framework:


Thinking Skills

Creativity

Self-Directed Learning

Group Dynamics/Leadership

Communication

Research

Arts