Beginning Fall 2013, the Department of Educational Sciences, Foundations & Research (ESFR) will offer graduate courses for Oklahoma Gifted Education Specialist (OGES).
All courses will be offered fully online.
This course introduces concepts and techniques for providing differentiated educational strategies for gifted and talented students. The historical and cultural foundation of gifted education programs provides a framework to examine different types of current-day gifted education programs, characteristics and identification procedures of gifted students, and gifted education theory and pedagogy. In addition, this course examines relevant state and federal polices related to gifted and talented education.
This course focuses on developing teachers’ professional knowledge bases, critical decision-making competencies and leadership skills, as well as professional dispositions related to the special social and emotional characteristics and needs of gifted learners. As such, students will develop their knowledge and understanding of gifted learners’ social and emotional needs in school, family and community contexts, consider the potential for using counseling and other social interactions to support the complex socio-emotional and developmental characteristics that distinguish gifted learners as they confront the challenges of developing their own knowledge and skills in academic and other settings.
The focus of this course is the development of curricula for students who are gifted, talented, or creative. The course provides an overview of teaching/learning techniques, strategies, methods and scope and sequence to enrich, expand, or accelerate curriculum. Major models for gifted education including the Integrated Curriculum Model, commonly used in gifted education, will be explored.
This course examines broad concepts of intelligence and assessment and provides techniques to identify gifted, talented and creative students. Participants will develop a working knowledge of assessment techniques and will also develop awareness of the influences of language, culture, ethnicity, gender, and exceptionality on recognition and subsequent identification of giftedness from multiple perspectives.
Topics include communication, consultation and collaboration for the implementation of education for the gifted and talented. Skills for the development of leadership and communication in teachers are basic for the enhancement of the program for the gifted talented and creative.
Prerequisites: ESFR 5413, ESFR 5423, ESFR 5433 (Transfer credit evaluated on an individual basis).
This course emphasizes teaching and facilitation in a supervised teaching environment for learners who are gifted, talented, or creative.
Dr. Linda Rittner
Department of Educational Sciences, Foundations & Research
University of Central Oklahoma
Campus phone: 405-974-3488