COURSEWORK REQUIREMENTS FOR TEACHERS OF GIFTED

Albuquerque Public Schools requires that anyone new to teaching gifted education (beginning Fall 1999) will be required to have the following 12 hours of university coursework:

1. Nature and Needs of the Gifted (or any gifted intro class) 3 hours

2. Curriculum for the Gifted 3 hours

3. A Strategies Class (1 of 3) 3 hours

• Teaching the Gifted Person
• Instructional Strategies for the Gifted
• Creativity and Problem Solving for the Gifted

4. Special Education Survey Class for Twice Exceptional 3 hours (or any graduate level class with LD in the title)

5. The employee is further required to have a current teaching certificate

Call APS Human Resources for additional information: 889-4830

ONLINE COURSES: Teachers of Gifted

A search of the internet will list many on-line options for meeting the APS Coursework Requirements for teachers of the gifted. Listed below are sites where teachers have been satisfied:

CASENEX: University of Virginia  

http://www.casenex.com/

College of William and Mary  

http://cfge.wm.edu/graduateprograms.php

University of Connecticut

www.gifted.uconn.edu

University of Missouri-Columbia  

http://mudirect.missouri.edu/degrees/gifted.htm#courses

University of Georgia

http://www.coe.uga.edu/gctweb/

New Mexico State University

Contact Teresa Rowlison at rowlison@nmsu.edu

For information about UNM coursework in gifted education, contact Elizabeth Nielsen at enielsen@unm.edu