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Skills for 21 st Century Learners: The Road to Self-Directed Learning
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Why develop gifted education curriculum? Consider skills needed by most gifted learners To be able to develop a Credible, Consistent Gifted Curriculum To ease Collaboration with various constituency groups (general education teachers, parents, other gifted teachers… Provide a Continuum of Services for the students Facilitate Communication and training K-12
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Four Components of the Blue Valley Gifted Education Services 1.IEP Goals 2.Process Skills Development 3.Enrichment/Extension 4.Social-Emotional Skills Development
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Individual Group
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Why 21 st Century Skills? Our children’s futures include: –Continued outsourcing of jobs –Continued automation of jobs –Knowledge doubling exponentially and in increasingly shorter periods of time –Jobs/technologies of the future that have not yet been invented –Dwindling global resources »Thomas Friedman, “The World is Flat”
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What are the Four Most Critical Skills for Gifted Students? Critical/Creative Thinking Problem Solving Research Technology
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These can be called MEGA SKILLS Critical/Creative Thinking Problem Solving Research Technology
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Basic Skills define the Mega Skill For example….. Research skills can be subdivided into: Task Initiation Topic Selection Topic Exploration Focus Formulation Information Collection Presentation of Findings
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Mini Skills make up Basic Skills Information Collection (a basic skill) is made up of these mini skills: Literature review Research methodology Data gathering/sampling Statistical analysis of data
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Why this much detail? Must be able to delineate the skills you teach! If you don’t know where you are going….. You’ll probably end up somewhere else! To have a credible curriculum, it must be detailed and defensible!
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How will content be chosen to accompany skill development? Student interest? District-wide activity? (robotics) Teacher passion area? (math) Area being studied in a content area?
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Blank Scope & Sequence
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Research Scope & Sequence
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Research Scope & Sequence Continued
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Critical & Creative Thinking Scope & Sequence
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Critical & Creative Thinking Scope & Sequence Continued
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Problem Solving Scope & Sequence
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Technology Scope & Sequence
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Technology Scope & Sequence Continued
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Research Skills Rubric
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Critical Thinking Skills Rubric
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Critical Thinking Skills Worksheet
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What’s Next??? Master Mastery for each child Assess number of units for each level for each skill and encourage writing of units where needed Evaluate and revise units
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Are we preparing students for their futures, or for our pasts? Willard Daggett
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Dr. Sheri Stewart DCT, Gifted Education (913) 239-4333 sstewart@bluevalleyk12.org Briana Duffy Gifted Education Teacher (913) 239-6628 bcduffy@bluevalleyk12.org
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