This 60-hour course includes participation in instructional activities, research, and extended learning outside of the classroom. A variety of learning activities is included. Participants will develop an awareness of valuing creativity, clarifying creativity, understanding the elements of creativity, cultural conceptions of creativity, and assessing creativity. They will also learn how to foster a creative learning environment, nurture, and develop creativity, identify goals, and use evaluation procedures.

This 60-hour course includes participation in instructional activities, research, and extended learning outside of the classroom providing an overview of the evolution of gifted education on the national, state, and local level. Major events affecting gifted education are described as well as major policies and procedures governing the delivery of gifted education. Cognitive, social, and emotional characteristics common to individuals who are gifted are identified along with strategies that can be used to meet the academic needs of different categories of students who are gifted. (Application opens December 8, 2025)

This 60-hour course provides an analysis of curriculum modifications for gifted learners based on the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Standards for Graduate Programs in Gifted Education. Participants will be able to demonstrate adaptations in the content, process, product, affect, and learning environment of the classroom and curricula as they relate to gifted learners. Course participants will design units of instruction that are powerful, aligned, engaging, authentic, and challenging. Participants will be able to demonstrate modifications in the content, process, product, affect, and learning environment of the classroom and curricula as they relate to gifted learners. (Application opens February 23, 2026)

This 60-hour course includes participation in instructional activities, research, and extended learning outside of the classroom. This course provides an overview of theory, research, practical strategies, and resources on guidance and counseling, with an emphasis on classroom applications in the gifted classroom. Participants will understand holistic developmental characteristics of gifted children, will be able to identify risk factors related to gifted students, and will be to support social skills, career exploration, and leadership development of gifted students.