When developing curriculum for gifted learners, it is important that the following areas are addressed within curricular units developed. While not a unit in and of itself, social emotional learning does need to be addressed throughout the curriculum.

Acceleration

of content

• Fewer tasks to mastery
• Standards clustered by HOTS
• Pre-assessments used

Complexity

in process and content

• Thinking and process skills
• Use of complex texts
• Use of multiple sources

Depth

of content, process, product

• Concepts from multiple applications (math, language arts, social studies, etc)
• Original research (in area of passion as well as other areas)
• Product development

Challenge

in content and process

• Reasoning skills
• Advanced resources (above grade level)
• Cross disciplinary
• Stimulating and sophisticated content
• Technology

Creativity

in product and process

• Oral and written communication
• Real world audience and application
• Alternatives for tasks/products (generate real responses, not choosing from choices)
• Problem solving
• Technology