Curriculum Compacting

 Name it. Prove it. Change it.

Curriculum compacting is an intervention that ensures students don't have to cover areas of learning they have already mastered.

The reasons why curriculum compacting is a popular intervention for gifted students are:

There are several steps in curriculum compacting:

Renzulli and Reis developed a special form to document compacting done for individual students: The Compactor.

The Compactor

In the first column the teacher names what area of the curriculum could be compacted for a certain student. The second column documents how the teacher made sure, the student already knows the material. The third column contains suggestions for alternative work or describes how instructions for the student could be streamlined.

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Matthias Giger, April 2006 (Update: 16-12-2007)
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