Week 4 - Learning Activity

4.1. Select a theme in a subject you teach that would be appropriate for students who are gifted and at the grade level you teach. Using the NAGC Rubric for Rating Outstanding Curricular Material (Topic 8 HO 1), develop a unit of study. Be sure your unit covers each area. Your unit could be for one to three weeks, cover the pertinent Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, and should apply principles from one of the curriculum models discussed earlier. If possible, reference the Educational Plans (EPs) for students in your class to determine their learning strengths.

Critique your own unit using the components from NAGC’s Rubric for Rating Outstanding Curriculum Material and the Checklist for Rigor from the Florida’s Frameworks for K-12 Gifted Learners found at http://www.fldoe.org/bii/Gifted_Ed/pdf/K12GiftedLearners.pdf.

Key components from the NAGC Rubric include:

• Nature of Differentiation
• Opportunities for Talent Development
• Clarity of Objectives
• Nature of the Objectives
• Evaluation Components
• Learning Activities
• Instructional Strategies
• Student Products and Assignments
• Resources and Level of Student Engagement with the Materials
• Alignment of Curricular Components
• Evidence of Effectiveness
• Ease of Use by Other Educators

4.2 Using the Learning Contract template, design a compacted unit for one of your students. Explain how you determined the student's eligibility for the voluntary participation.