1. Gifted Preparatory School Curriculum
©The Gifted Education Foundation: 2015
Intangibles© Curriculum
Summary of Modules and Lessons
MODULE 1: LIFE SKILLS
Equips students with practical skills to choose
emotionally, mentally, and socially healthy
behaviors; recognize warning signs of suicide,
prevent suicide, and find suicide help ; form and
execute wise decisions; manage personal anger
and resolve conflicts effectively
Lesson 1, Self-Defeating Behavior: Students
will identify self-defeating behaviors and
understand how those behaviors affect their
goals, as well as learn healthy alternative
behaviors to overcoming them
Lesson 2, Suicide Prevention: Students will
examine suicide prevention for themselves and
others by discussing the facts about suicide and
its warning signs and receiving tips on how to
manage stress in order to prevent suicide. They
will also be provided with information on how
to get help for themselves or others that may be
suicidal.
Lesson 3, Decision-Making: Equips students
with the skills necessary to make effective
decisions. Students will explore how to identify
and make low-impact and high-impact
decisions. They will be challenged to strongly
consider the positive and negative consequences
that can occur due to decisions they make.
Lesson 4, Conflict Resolution: Students are
encouraged to more effectively resolve conflicts
by leading them in self-analysis and equipping
them with conflict resolution tools. They will
identify their conflict resolution style to perform
more effectively when facing conflicts. They
will also be provided with various helpful anger
management techniques.
MODULE 2: COLLEGE READINESS
Equips students with the helpful tools to select a
college major matching their chosen career path;
shows them the types of financial aid available
for post-secondary education and where to
access them; teaches them how to seek
assistance while on a college campus, balance
education and social life in their college
schedule, and appreciate diversity on campus
Lesson 1, Choosing My College: Students will
analyze their personal and educational needs and
desires in order to make informed decisions
when selecting a college. They will determine
what is important to them in a college and
research colleges that meet their qualifications.
They will be encouraged to increase their
marketability to colleges by analyzing their
current courses, grades, test scores,
extracurricular activities, and community
service.
Lesson 2, Choosing My Major: Equips students
with the skills necessary for selecting a major
that will propel them in the direction of their
chosen career path. They will research college
majors that align with their career interests and
watch short video tips on selecting a college
major suitable for them.
Lesson 3, Obtaining Financial Aid: Students
will identify the types of financial aid that are
available and where and how to best access the
available resources. They will be encouraged to
track application deadlines and will receive a list
of recommended scholarships and financial aid
websites.
Lesson 4, Succeeding in College: This lesson
focuses on the college campus and college
experience. Students will explore ways they can
obtain assistance with meeting needs that arise
while there. They will discuss the importance of
appreciating diversity on campus.

2. Gifted Preparatory School Curriculum
©The Gifted Education Foundation: 2015
MODULE 3: CAREER READINESS
Develops student self-awareness of their talents,
abilities, and personality types to aid in
streamlining life decisions and live life on
purpose; increases exposure to careers and what
they entail and provides structure in their pursuit
of them through career planning; analyzes
proper business attire; trains students to write
strong resumes; and defines and role-plays
effective interviewing skills
Lesson 1, Self-Discovery: Students will identify
some of their talents, gifts, and skills as well as
their personality types to aid in better
recognizing how to connect them to their
college, career and/or personal lives – now and
in the future.
Lesson 2, Career Pathways: Students will
research careers and the steps to take to enter
into them. They will attain detailed information
about careers such as their qualifications, duties,
and pay. Students will also write a career plan
on the career of their choice that will include
specific action steps for them to take.
Lesson 3, Dressing for Success and Resume
Writing: Students will demonstrate
understanding of the proper business attire for
interviews, the corporate workplace, and
professional functions. They will analyze how to
write a strong resume and develop their own.
Lesson 4, Hireability: Landing a Job With a
Stellar Interview: Students will define and
demonstrate strong interviewing skills for the
purpose of being selected for the jobs that they
desire.
MODULE 4: SOCIAL ETIQUETTE
Explains and affords many opportunities for
role-play and demonstration of proper social
etiquette in informal, business, and professional
settings. It includes extensive coverage of cell
phone etiquette both publically and privately.
Lesson 1, Having Good Manners: Students
will demonstrate their understanding of proper
etiquette for social behavior, discovering if
they are correct. This includes eye contact,
giving and receiving compliments, courtesy in
public places, classroom etiquette, and male
chivalry.
Lesson 2, Technology Etiquette, Part 1:
Handling Phones With Class: Students will
explain and demonstrate proper etiquette for the
usage of phones. This includes making and
receiving calls; ending calls, profanity and
phone volume, frequency of phone usage with
others, talking on the phone in line and when
purchasing in public, when to not use a phone,
and phones wallpaper and case selections.
Lesson 3, Technology Etiquette, Part 2:
Social Media, Music, and More on Phones:
Students will explain and demonstrate proper
etiquette for the usage of phones, social
media, and music playing. This includes
proper voicemail; texting; picture-taking and
video recording; posting on social media sites,
blogs, YouTube; email tone; music volume in
a vehicle, usage of headphones, and music
around children.
Lesson 4, Professional Etiquette: Students
will explain and demonstrate proper etiquette
for the usage of phones, social media, and
music playing. This includes proper
voicemail; texting; picture-taking and video
recording; posting on social media sites,
blogs, YouTube; email tone; music volume in
a vehicle, usage of headphones, and music
around children.

3. Gifted Preparatory School Curriculum
©The Gifted Education Foundation: 2015
MODULE 5: RELATIONSHIPS
Empowers students with critically important
tools for healthy friendships, dating
relationships, and even marriage - including
tools for overcoming conflict and offenses.
Lesson 1, Keys to Healthy Relationships:
Students will analyze the keys to healthy
friendships and romantic relationships and tips
for developing and maintaining them.
Lesson 2, Skills for Dating Relationships:
Students will examine tools for healthy
marriages and dating relationships by examining
research-based descriptions of the needs of men
vs. women in marriage and love languages in
relationships.
Lesson 3, Impact of the Sexualization of
Women in Media: Students will examine how
women are portrayed in media and how that can
influence their self-perception, behaviors, and
cultural mindset(s) about roles of men and
women, sex, and relationships.
Lesson 4, Pre-Marital Sex: To Do or Not to
Do: Students will discuss and analyze possible
long-term effects of premarital sex, whether to
engage in sex now or to wait until marriage, and
the practical benefits of waiting until marriage.
Lesson 5, The Anti-Intimacy of Pornography:
Students will analyze research findings and
testimonials on the causes and effects of
frequent pornography usage and how it can
personally impact themselves and their
relationships.
Lesson 6, Overcoming Conflict & Offense:
Students will discuss and demonstrate
understanding of tools they can use to overcome
the common challenges of conflict and offense
in relationships
Lesson 7, Benefits of Racially/Culturally
Diverse Relationships: Students will analyze
how prejudices/stereotypes of other races/
cultures are damaging and hindering to potential
and present relationships (and discover benefits
of diversity.
MODULE 6: SERVICE
Evaluates the essence of service – including its
personal benefits - and expands the common
view of a philanthropist, challenging students to
be one
Lesson 1, Roots of Service – Why Serve?:
Students will evaluate core reasons for serving
others and personal benefits of service. Through
self-assessment, they will also determine how
service can be incorporated more into their lives.
Lesson 2, Philanthropy, Service Leader &
Project Brainstorm: Students will define and
evaluate whether they are philanthropists as well
as examine service leadership and the value of
service to others.
Lesson 3, Scoping the Scene- Investigating Our
Community: Students will research community
service projects. They will then seek to find a
place and a people group that this project will
serve. They will discuss their findings, identify
the skills and talents needed for the service
projects and participate in the forming of a
student leadership team for the project.
Lesson 4, Nitty-Gritty – Service Learning
Project Planning: Students will create a service
project together: creating goals and objectives;
solidifying tasks, action steps, requirements,
dates, assigning and volunteering for project
roles and duties; and any other details needed.
Lesson 5, Self-Created Lesson Plan Guide: As
part of the service-learning process, the
Intangibles© facilitator and select students will
create a lesson that exposes the group doing the
service project to the social issue their project
will address.
Lesson 6, Service Project Day: The
Intangibles© facilitator will use the checklist
provided on the day of the service project to help
he/she execute an effective service project with
the group of student and adult volunteers present.
Lesson 7, Evaluating Our Service Project:
Students will evaluate their service project
individually, as a group, and from the point of
view of those they served.