Office of Instruction
Acceleration
Moving
at a quicker pace. Many include early entrance to school,
grade skipping, non-graded classroom, early admission
to college, enrollment in special courses, advanced courses,
curriculum compacting.
Curriculum Compacting
Through
this process, schools eliminate repetition of previously
mastered material, upgrade the challenge level of the
regular classroom, and provide time for enrichment and
acceleration activities.
Differentiation
An organized, yet flexible way of proactively
adjusting teaching and learning to meet students where
they are and help them to achieve maximum growth as learners.
Enrichment
Extensions
of the grade level essential curriculum or additional
learning experience not included in the regular curriculum.
Enrichment Clusters
Enrichment clusters bring
together non-graded groups of students who share common interests.
Flexible Skills Grouping
Students
are matched to skills work by virtue of readiness, not
with the assumption that all need the same spelling tasks,
computation drill, writing assignment, etc. Movement
among groups is common, based on readiness on a given
skill and growth in that skill.
Independent Projects
Process
through which student and teacher identify problems or
topics of interest to the student. Both student and teacher
plan a method of investigating the problem or topic and
identifying the type of product the student will develop.
This product should address the problem and demonstrate
the student's ability to apply skills and knowledge to
the problem or topic.
Interest Centers or Interest Groups
Interest Centers
(Often used with younger students) and interest groups (often used with
older students) typically provide enrichment for students who can demonstrate
mastery/competence with required work. They are sometimes a vehicle
for providing students with meaningful study when basic assignments
are completed.
Learning Centers
Learning
center can be "stations" or collections of
materials learners use to explore topics or practice
skills. For gifted learners, learning centers should
move beyond cursory exploration of topics and practice
of basic skills, and should provide study in greater
breadth and depth on interesting and important topics.
Thematic Units
Instruction
tied together by a key concept or idea. Teachers integrate
information and activities from a variety of disciplines
into the curriculum units.
Tiered Assignments
In a heterogeneous
class, a teacher uses varied levels of activities to
ensure that students explore ideas at a level that builds
on their prior knowledge and prompts continued growth.
Student groups use varied approaches to exploration of
essential ideas.
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