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Skills for 21st Century Learners: The Road to Self-
Directed Learning
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
Four Components of the Blue Valley Gifted Education Services
1. IEP Goals
2. Process Skills Development
3. Enrichment/Extension
4. Social-Emotional Skills Development
Individual Group
Why 21st 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”
What are the Four Most Critical Skills for Gifted Students?
Critical/Creative Thinking Problem Solving Research Technology
These can be called MEGA SKILLS
Critical/Creative Thinking Problem Solving Research Technology
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
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
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!
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?
Blank Scope & Sequence
Research Scope & Sequence
Research Scope & Sequence Continued
Critical & Creative Thinking Scope & Sequence
Critical & Creative Thinking Scope & Sequence Continued
Problem SolvingScope & Sequence
TechnologyScope & Sequence
TechnologyScope & Sequence Continued
Research Skills Rubric
Critical Thinking Skills Rubric
Critical Thinking Skills Worksheet
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
Are we preparing students for their futures, or for our pasts?
Willard Daggett
Dr. Sheri StewartDCT, Gifted Education
(913) [email protected]
Briana DuffyGifted Education Teacher
(913) [email protected]
