IMC

1. Process-product

   Nota:

   • This facet of the model promotes student opportunities for manipulating information at complex levels by employing generic thinking models like Paul’s Elements of Reasoning (Paul & Elder, 2001) and more discipline-specific models like Sher’s Nature of the Scientific Process (Sher, 1993). This facet of the ICM also promotes the utilization of information in generative ways, through project work and/or fruitful discussions. 
   1. Advanced reading
   2. Primary sources
   3. In- depth
   4. Advanced skills
2. Concepts, issues, themes

   Nota:

   • Chapter 9 Content based Curriculum for H-A learners. ..."By focusing on concepts, teachers support students in developing understanding of the "big ideas" that shape the human condition and the world around us, as well as the ability to sort, integrate & transfer those in multiple contexts
   1. Patterns
      1. Differentiation & scaffolding
   2. Systems
      1. Interdisciplinary connections
   3. Cause & effects
      1. sequences and transfers
   4. Change
      1. everywhere
      2. linked to time
      3. may be + or -
      4. naturally or manipulated
      5. orderly or random
   5. Assessing Concept Learning
      1. open-ended responses
      2. concept maps
      3. Applications in the classroom & in the real world
3. Advanced content

   Nota:

   • This facet of the model ensures that careful diagnostic-prescriptive approaches are employed to enhance the challenge level of the curriculum base. Curricula based on the model would represent advanced learning in any given discipline.
   1. Problem based-learning
   2. Inquiry skills
   3. Research
   4. Elements of reasoning

Nota:

• These 3 characteristics dictate an approach to the ICM that honors various facets of the gifted mind and personality.

1. Precocity
   1. advance development
      1. Verbal
      2. Mathematical
2. Complexity
   1. High level of thinking
   2. Abstract concept
   3. Challenging work
3. Intensity
   1. emotional responsiveness
   2. Depth exploration