ALIGNMENT
Standards

Gifted and Talented - Grade 12


Strand: Communication - Media and Technology: Create and present a multimedia presentation of an original interdisciplinary research study.
Dimensions of Communication: Writing effectively uses rhetorical devices and rhetorical stance to influence the writer's intent and the audience's interpretation. Support used to strengthen a point of view or an argument comes from a variety of credible sources and addresses contrasting point of views or arguments. Reflect on and evaluate own writing as well as the writing of others.

  • Critically analyze the linguistic components, strategies, and devices used to convey meaning and intention in varying modes of personal communication EXPAND
  • Evaluate personal use of linguistic components, strategies, and devices applied within and across academic contextsEXPAND

Strand: Creative Thinking - Complex Thinking Skills: Engage in visionary thinking and proactive problem solving on personal and societal issues.
Cognitive Processing Level 3: Epistemic cognition is reflecting on the limits of knowledge, the certainty of knowing, and the criteria for knowing something - Take a position in defense or opposition of the steps used to solve a societal problem.

Strand: Critical Thinking - Dimensions of Multicultural Education (Banks,1997): Changing the Dispositions of Teachers and Learners through Pedagogy and Processes.
Understanding of cultural diversity and its impact on self, school community, and local community through self -reflection and self-analysis- Content Integration, Equity Pedagogy, Knowledge Construction Process, Prejudice Reduction, and Empowering School Culture and Social Structure

  • Explain generalizations, principles, and theories within multiple professional fields and across culturesEXPAND
  • Analyze how historical and contemporary issues of a diverse society impacts self, school community, and the local communityEXPAND