University Teaching
CTEV 610 C - Curriculum in Content Areas for Gifted Students
This course provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to successfully develop and implement curriculum for gifted learners in school settings. Participants will collaborate on the creation of a thematic unit designed to meet the various needs of gifted learners. The thematic unit will highlight the intense interests or passions of the creators, and will be presented to the other cohort members in the course. This course examines content areas and enhances the instruction of core area curriculum vital for the success of all students, and is appropriate for enrichment in the general classroom.
Prerequisites: none
1. Learners will develop activities that match each student’s developmental level and culture-based learning needs. (1.2.1, 3.5.1)2. Learners will use biographies and identify role models and out of school learning opportunities to meet students' needs and interests. (1.4.1, 1.4.2, 3.5.2)3. Learners will provide product based learning opportunities for students to identify future career goals that match their strengths, talents, and abilities and resources needed to meet those goals. (1.8.1, 1.8.2, 2.4.2)4. Learners will collect student assessment data through pre and post performance based assessments to measure student progress. (2.2.4, 2.4.1)5. Learners will use and modify local, state, and national standards to align and expand curriculum and instructional plans to meet the needs of twice-exceptional, highly gifted, and English language learners. (3.1.1, 3.1.3)6. Learners will design differentiated curricula in the cognitive, affective, aesthetic, social, and leadership domains (with continuous progress monitoring through formative assessments) that incorporates advanced, conceptually challenging, in-depth, distinctive, and complex content for students. (3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.2.1) 7. Learners will demonstrate familiarity with sources for high quality resources and materials that are appropriate for learners with gifts and talents and that provide curriculum opportunities for deep explorations of cultures, languages, and social issues related to diversity. (3.5.3, 3.6.1)CTEV 610 D - Methods and Strategies for Teaching Gifted and Talented Students
This course provides participants with a global overview of strategies effective in challenging gifted learners. Participants will immerse themselves in designing, discussing, implementing, and presenting empirically and research-based strategies that challenge gifted students. Methods by which gifted students are served within school programs will be examined and each participant will develop their own personal portfolio and/or journal for future use.
Prerequisites: none
1. Learners will design interventions based on research and effective practice to develop students' cognitive and affective growth with special attention given to underachieving and recently identified students. (1.6.1, 1.6.2)2. Learners will use multiple alternative approaches, such as pre-assessments, and pace instruction based on the learning rates of students to accelerate and compact learning as appropriate. (3.1.6, 5.1.1)3. Learners will use technologies, such as advanced communication tools, assistive technologies, and online learning, to individualize student needs in order to promote higher-level thinking and creative productivity with special attention given to twice-exceptional students. (3.1.7, 4.5.2, 5.1.4, 5.1.5)4. Learners will provide enrichment options to extend and deepen learning opportunities inside and outside of school that include supporting students to self-explore, develop, or research their areas of interest and/or talent toward development by way of mentorships, internships, and independent study. (3.3.3, 4.1.2, 5.1.2, 5.1.4)5. Learners will use critical-thinking and creative-thinking strategies and problem-solving and inquiry models to meet the needs of students. (3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4)6. Learners will provide structured student collaborative opportunities toward a common goal with diverse peers and understand how to use multiple forms of grouping such as clusters, resource rooms, special classes, or special schools. (4.4.3, 5.1.3)7. Learners will select, adapt, and use a repertoire of instructional strategies and materials that differentiate for students and that respond to diversity that may also support opportunities for advanced development and maintenance of students' first and second language(s) and enhance oral, written, and artistic forms of communication - recognizing students’ cultural context. (3.3.1, 4.5.1, 4.5.2)
CTEV 610 E - Meeting the needs of gifted students through game play
Participants will discover firsthand, research, and share how to meet the academic, social, emotional, and cognitive needs of gifted students through traditional and digital game play while addressing NAGC, Common Core, and NEPF standards. Curriculum and instruction topics within the field of game play include traditional board and card games, analog and digital simulations, role playing, gamification, and game design. Fostering parental involvement and family engagement will be promoted and essential theoretical topics on play, such as the importance of play in promoting healthy child development, will be explored.
Prerequisites: none
1. Learners will develop activities that match each student’s developmental level and culture-based learning needs. (1.2.1, 3.5.1)2. Learners will use and modify local, state, and national standards to align and expand curriculum and instructional plans to meet the needs of twice-exceptional, highly gifted, and English language learners. (3.1.1, 3.1.3)3. Learners will design differentiated curricula in the cognitive, affective, aesthetic, social, and leadership domains (with continuous progress monitoring through formative assessments) that incorporates advanced, conceptually challenging, in-depth, distinctive, and complex content for students. (3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.2.1) 4. Learners will demonstrate familiarity with sources for high quality resources and materials that are appropriate for learners with gifts and talents and that provide curriculum opportunities for deep explorations of cultures, languages, and social issues related to diversity. (3.5.3, 3.6.1)5. Learners will design interventions based on research and effective practice to develop students' cognitive and affective growth with special attention given to underachieving and recently identified students. (1.6.1, 1.6.2)6. Learners will use technologies, such as advanced communication tools, assistive technologies, and online learning, to individualize student needs in order to promote higher-level thinking and creative productivity with special attention given to twice-exceptional students. (3.1.7, 4.5.2, 5.1.4, 5.1.5)7. Learners will provide enrichment options to extend and deepen learning opportunities inside and outside of school that include supporting students to self-explore, develop, or research their areas of interest and/or talent. (3.3.3, 4.1.2, 5.1.2)8. Learners will use critical-thinking and creative-thinking strategies and problem-solving and inquiry models to meet the needs of students. (3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4)9. Learners will provide structured student collaborative opportunities toward a common goal with diverse peers. (4.4.3)