General educators designated as providers of gifted services must receive qualifying professional development in these competencies:

(a) The ability to differentiate instruction based on a student’s readiness, knowledge and skill level, including using accelerated content, complexity, depth, challenge, creativity and abstractness;

(b) The ability to select, adapt or create a variety of differentiated curricula that incorporate advanced, conceptually challenging, in-depth, distinctive and complex content;

(c) The ability to provide an extension or replacement of the general education curriculum, to modify the learning process through strategies, such as curriculum compacting and to select alternative assignments and projects based on individual student needs;

(d) The ability to understand the social and emotional needs of students who are gifted and to address the impact of those needs on student learning;

(e) The ability to recognize and respond to the characteristics and needs of students from traditionally underrepresented populations who are gifted and create safe and culturally responsive learning environments;

(f) The ability to use data from a variety of sources to measure and monitor the growth of students who are gifted;

(g) The ability to select, use and interpret technically sound formal and informal assessments to inform academic decision-making; and

(h) The ability to participate in the development of the Written Education Plan.