Students can be accelerated by grade, when they are advanced in all areas, or by subject. In the latter case a student in Grade 6 may be doing math at an advanced level and language arts at his age level. While many educators resist acceleration as a strategy, research overwhelmingly supports it. Acceleration has been shown to be positive for both achieving and underachieving gifted learners in the majority of documented cases. Telescoping Telescoping is reducing the amount of time a student takes to cover the curriculum.
Courses often involve overlapping content and skills from one grade level to the next.
Gifted learners may not need as much time to learn and remember the material. An example of telescoping is when a student completes grades 8 and 9 math in one year. Telescoping can be used in conjunction with acceleration. For example, at Johns Hopkins University, mathematically precocious youth are offered both strategies to help them advance more quickly. The student's learning needs are diagnosed and instruction is provided only when needed.