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Select one set of national curriculum standards in a content area that you will use for the rest of the assignments in this course, including the Differentiated Curriculum Unit Plan. The standards should be in a content area that you could or do teach.  The FIVE choices of content standards are:

The Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts (Includes the Literacy Standards for History, Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects)  http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/

The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (Includes the Standards for Mathematical Practice)  http://www.corestandards.org/Math/

The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3)  Framework for Social Studies State Standards  https://www.socialstudies.org/c3

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)  https://www.nextgenscience.org/

The National Core Arts Standards https://www.nationalartsstandards.org/

  Part 1.  Analyze the Standards

Analyze background information about standards to determine why, how, and by whom they were developed and the ways in which they differ from or improve upon what preceded them. Explain the long-term goals of the standards and their organizing principles.

Part 2. Differentiate the Standards

According to the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), grade level content standards should be differentiated for advanced and gifted and talented students: “Although the new content standards are considered to be more rigorous than most current state standards, they fall short in meeting the specific needs of gifted learners, and if held strictly to the standard, could actually limit learning.” ( https://www.nagc.org/common-core-state-standards-national-science-standards-and-gifted-education ). 

Select one content standard  that is in grade band and domain of interest. (The standards have different domains; for example, the ELA has reading, speaking, writing, listening, the CCSS for mathematics has domains such as algebra and geometry, etc.)

Using the list of ten curriculum design principles defined in Stephens & Karnes (Chapter 3), explain how you could modify the standard to expand learning for gifted and talented students.  Choose four different principles and give specific examples of how they could be applied to differentiate the standard.