What should gifted education that takes place within the regular classroom look like?
According to PDE Gifted Guidelines, instruction for gifted students should feature acceleration, complexity, depth, challenge, and creativity and should be flexibly paced and matched to the student’s ability, pre-assessment data, learning style, interest, and motivation. Gifted students should be provided with the freedom to choose topics to study and the methods to use in manipulating and transforming information, be encouraged to engage in independent, self-directed, and in-depth study, be taught and encouraged to use advanced research skills, be given open-ended tasks that require application, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge, and be given high-level and exemplary criteria for assessment of their work.
