Guiding Principles Curriculum Differentiation
For the Gifted and Talented

Curriculum      Principles     Themes      Course Offerings

• The content of curricula for the gifted/talented should focus on and be organized to include more elaborate, complex, and in-depth study of major ideas, problems, and themes that integrate knowledge with and across systems of thought.
• Curricula for the gifted/talented should allow for the development and application of productive thinking skills to enable students to reconceptualize existing knowledge and/or generate new knowledge.
• Curricula for the gifted/talented should enable them to explore constantly changing knowledge and information and develop the attitude that knowledge is worth pursuing in an open world.
• Curricula for the gifted/talented should encourage exposure to selection, and use of appropriate and specialized resources.
• Curricula for the gifted/talented should promote self-initiated and self-directed learning and growth.
• Curricula for the gifted/talented should provide for the development of self-understandings and the understanding of one's relationship to persons, societal institutions, nature, and culture.
• Evaluations of curricula for the gifted/talented should be conducted in accordance with prior stated principles, stressing higher-level thinking skills, creativity and excellence in performance and products.