The NAGC developed a Rubric for Rating Outstanding Curriculum Material that helps direct the designer towards the development of quality, all encompassing lessons. Take some time to look over the features of the rubric. Notice that each key feature has four possible outcomes: 1 being the minimum and 4 being the mostcomplex. As you can see, this is a very complex, detailed rubric and leaves no stone
unturned! It can be very overwhelming and time consuming to base all your lessons on the total rubric. NAGC Rubric for Rating Outstanding Curriculum Material. Retrieved September 17, 2007
The Advanced Academics Department in Broward County has condensed the rubric and highlighted those sections that most affect the daily routine of the classroom. This rubric can be used when evaluating the effectiveness of an existing unit. As you build units of instruction, use this rubric as your guide to ensure that you are providing quality instruction to your gifted students. Click here to download the Broward County rubric.
Now that you have an awareness of the NAGC’s rubric, read Bridging the Gap: A Tool and Technique to Analyze and Evaluate Gifted Education Curricular Units by Purcell, Burns, Tomlinson, Imbeau and Martin. It takes the NAGC rubric and provides a clear, concise explanation of each key feature and then provides additional uses for the curriculum rubric. As you are reading this research-based article, start thinking about how you could use the rubric to plan your curriculum unit.
There is one more seed you need to add to your garden to help your unit flourish. Bloom’s Taxonomy has long been a means of our understanding the depth of thinking. You are often exposed to the cognitive side – but there is also an affective side.
Affective |
Cognitive |
Receiving |
Knowledge |
Responding |
Comprehension |
Valuing |
Application |
Organization |
Analysis |
Characterization by a Value Or Value Complex |
Synthesis/Evaluation |
Click here to complete an activity to reinforce your understanding of affective and cognitive domains.