Differentiation Strategies Differentiation Features

OPEN > Reaching All Students > High-End Learners > Setting the Context > Differentiation Features Before adaptation strategies can be stated, it is important to acknowledge the types of differentiation features that should characterize any curriculum to be used with gifted learners. Such a curriculum should always have the following five elements in order to make it appropriate: acceleration, complexity, depth, challenge, and creativity. Yet individual standards may only contain one element as long as the total curriculum likely that a given standard may have several of the differentiation features listed. A checklist has been designed to provide a quick way to assess each curriculum standard in respect to its appropriateness for the gifted (see below).  Download the Differentiation Features Checklist (13K PDF) Review the checklist before you listen to the audio explanations by Project Editor Jackie Buisman. If these do not play or buttons do not appear below, make sure you have the latest QuickTime plugin. Title: "Acceleration" Length: 1 min. 28 sec. File Size: 869 K Optional: Save to your computer (Zip-compressed). Title: "Complexity" Length: 48 sec. File Size: 478 K Optional: Save to your computer (Zip-compressed). Title: "Depth" Length: 32 sec. File Size: 321 K Optional: Save to your computer (Zip-compressed). Title: "Challenge" Length: 1 min. File Size: 623 K Optional: Save to your computer (Zip-compressed). Title: "Creativity" Length: 22 sec. File Size: 224 K Optional: Save to your computer (Zip-compressed).