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This model focuses on teaching content and thinking processes in efficient and interesting ways.
Practically speaking, the Knowledge Menu is a vehicle for teachers and students to explore meaning and authenticity in curriculum. Students explore the big ideas and essential understandings of a discipline, engage in activities that mimic what practicing professionals do, and make meaning from important concepts and principles through application.
Four menus comprise the Instructional Techniques section of the Multiple Menu Model. The Instructional Activities and Student Activities Menu helps teachers plan how students will learn, retain, analyze, synthesize, and apply information, as well as how students will be evaluated. Using the Instructional Strategies Menu, teachers decide what techniques are most appropriate for engaging students with the content. The Instructional Sequences Menu provides guidance for organizing and sequencing learning activities or lessons to make sure students reach the outcome. Accordingly, this menu lists strategies for piquing student interest in a topic, communicating lesson objectives to students, determining students’ prior knowledge relative to the objectives, presenting the material, providing extensions or follow-up opportunities, assessing student performance, and helping students transfer knowledge to new situations. The Artistic Modification Menu is a way for teachers to paint themselves into the curriculum picture by incorporating their own experiences, values, and knowledge into previously developed materials.
Instructional Products Menu, focuses on what concrete and abstract products will indicate student mastery of the learning outcomes. Concrete products might be performance based, leadership driven, artistic, visual, written, or oral.
While this model of gifted education is complex, time consuming, and intense, there are some great opportunities for differentiation at all stages, making it ideal for use in a regular classroom. However, most elementary school teachers take one main component from this model to use in their classrooms: the instructional products menu. This is a great tool for teachers to use to incorporate differentiation at the assessment level. The instructional products menu allows teachers to create assessment options that are suitable for below grade-level, on grad-level, and gifted learners.
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