This document discusses acceleration as an educational measure for gifted students. It begins by noting that gifted students have specific educational needs and should not be denied support due to misconceptions about their abilities. Acceleration is introduced as a form of curriculum flexibilization that adjusts the curriculum to a faster learning pace than standard. Various forms of acceleration are described, including early admission to grades or programs, subject or grade skipping, reduced schooling time, and attending upper-level classes. It is argued that acceleration, when appropriately implemented, can be an optimal educational measure for gifted students performing well above their peers.

1. Acceleration
as an
Educational
Measure

2. Contents
What is
acceleration?
01
02
03
Introduction
References

3. Introduction
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4. Gifted students need educational
attention
Before we begin to talk about the educational measures that we can carry out with gifted
students, it is important to mention the following:
In the case of Spain, since the implementation of the LOE (Organic Law of
Education) in 2006, gifted students are considered students with specific educational
support needs (ACNEAE) and this has continued to be contemplated in subsequent
educational laws
There is a mistaken belief that gifted students with high abilities do not require
specialized support because they are self-taught or "smarter" learners
Sometimes we find that these students do not receive the educational support to
which they are entitled due to the erroneous conception that "nothing should be
done" in the face of giftedness
03
01
02

5. Gifted students need educational
attention
Objective
To develop the full potential of each individual
for the benefit of society
For this reason, it is very important to understand that denying gifted students a specialized
education implies:
Infringement of the rights of the student body
01
Loss of talent for society
02

6. Gifted students need
educational attention
Educational centers must include in
their PAD (Plan of Attention to
Diversity) a protocol of measures to
duly attend to these students
PAD

7. What is
acceleration?
02

8. Acceleration: the most
controversial measure
It consists of modifying the curriculum
in terms of content and processes
(methodology, timing, etc.) while
maintaining the general objectives
Acceleration belongs to the type of
educational measures integrated
within the flexibilization of the
curriculum
Acceleration Flexibilization

9. Acceleration: the most
controversial measure
Flexibilization can take many forms:
Modifying the
methodology
Modifying
competencies (by
adding or removing
some of them)
Modifying the
contents
Modifying the time
to achieve
objectives
In this sense, repeating the course (contents, etc.) is also a flexibilization measure,
apparently opposed to acceleration, but which in reality shares the same objective: to adapt
to the learning pace of the students and individualize teaching
Flexibilization

10. What is
acceleration?
It is a measure of curriculum
flexibilization that consists of adjusting
the curriculum to a faster learning pace
than the one considered standard

11. Acceleration
However, contrary to what one
tends to think, acceleration is
much more than passing one or
more courses and contemplates
within itself a wide variety of
options (Tourón, 2016):
Early admission: in any of the educational stages
(kindergarten, primary, secondary, high school and
university)
Skipping a grade: either one or more
Subject skipping: "skipping" content of a subject by
advancing to higher course levels
Reduction of schooling time: two courses in one or
combining subjects from two different courses to
shorten schooling time
Attendance to upper level classes: attending
classes of other courses on an occasional basis

12. Acceleration: the most
controversial measure
Thanks to this, there is a wide range of options possible
between keeping a gifted student with the conventional
curriculum and skipping a grade or two
Curricular
flexibilization
The student's learning pace at any given moment, i.e., his or
her progress, and can be adjusted throughout schooling
To be
considered...

13. Acceleration: the most
controversial measure
Adapting education to high ability students is both possible and a right
● Although it is an unpopular measure in the collective imagination for being
misunderstood, it is an optimal measure in cases of intellectual precocity in which the
student is clearly well above his or her chronological age
● In fact, in some of the previous examples, an acceleration does not necessarily imply
that the student changes class-groups, but that he or she can stay with classmates of
his or her age, but working on subjects and contents of higher grades and with an
adapted methodology

14. References
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15. Bibliographic references
● Tourón, J. (January 8, 2016). La aceleración como estrategia educativa:
modalidades (2). Javier Tourón. Link: https://www.javiertouron.es/la-
aceleracion-como-estrategia_8/

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