Teachers and administrators alike need to recognize that gifted learners must be challenged in their area of greatest interest and potential expertise. The world can only benefit from motivating the future Marie Curies, Booker T. Washingtons, and Michael Faradays. Curriculum focuses on substantive content. Instruction is activity-based, engaging students in the doing aspect of learning. Assessment of learning includes a portfolio of student work including individual logs, reports, and other work.
Students engage in planning and carrying out original research.
Students actively discuss real world problems and issues in relationship to societal implications. Curriculum materials are appropriate for high ability learners in that they reinforce Items 1-10 above. Curriculum materials promote student engagement in learning. Classroom instruction incorporates appropriate technology as a tool in learning. Classroom instruction attends to individual differences in rate of learning.