Curriculum Modifications Guide Based on Student Behavior*

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Principles of Curriuculum Modification
 

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Process

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Characteristics of Gifted Students
Humor: Exceptionally keen sense of the comical, bizarre, absurd                                        
Motivation: Intense desire to know, do, feel, create or understand.o                                        
Interests: Ardent, passionate, sometimes unusual, fleeting.                                        
Communication/Expressiveness: Extraordinary ability to convey meaning or emotion through words, actions, symbols, sounds or media.                                        
Inquiry: Probing exploration, observation, or experimentation with events, objects, ideas, feelings sounds, media.                                        
Problem Solving: Outstanding ability to bring order to chaos through the invention and monitoring of paths to a goal; enjoymnent of challenge.                                        
Sensitivity: Unusually open, perceptive, responsive to experiences, feelings, others                                        
Intuition: Sudden recognition of connections or deeper meanings without concious awareness of reasoning or thought.                                        
Reasoning: Outstanding ability to think things through and consider implications or alternatives; rich highly concious, goal oriented thought.                                        
Imagination/Creativity: Extraordinary capacity for ingenius, flexible use of ideas, processes, materials.                                        
Memory/Knowledge/Understanding: Unusual capacity to acquire, integrate, retain, and retrieve information or skills.                                        
Learning: Ability to acquire sophisitcated understandings with amazing speed and apparent ease.                                        
Number of X's in colum                                        
Number of X's highlighted                                        

* This table was adapted from:
    Maker, C. J., & Nielson A.B., (1996) Curriuculum development and teaching strategies for gifted learners.  Austin, TX:  PRO-ED, Inc.

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