The interrelationships of physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development as well as the treatments of specific adolescent problems are examined. Stresses design of instruction as a response to the specific cognitive and affective needs of gifted learners and in-depth investigation of curricular differentiation by content, process, product, affect and learning environment. Provides opportunity for both assessment and development of curriculum for the gifted. Participants investigate similarities and differences between the development of gifted learners and other students. Implications of these comparisons are explored.
Course focuses on strategies to assist gifted learners in school and home environments.
Also encourages development of modes of assessing the effectiveness of models and strategies for use with gifted and talented learners. Adult Development Introductory-level course focuses on key issues in successful adult adaptation. Through a lecture-discussion format, students explore topics including cognition, personality, interpersonal relationships, work adjustment, physical and psychological health, and biological and psychological aging. Focus is on assessment of creativity, research on creativity and its applications to education, development of environments conducive to the development of creativity, and heuristics which are designed to encourage creativity. I Topics range from descriptive to inferential techniques.