Curriculum Planning and Instructional Design for Gifted Learners

Description

This book, in its third edition, provides practitioners at local and state levels a guide to designing curriculum for the gifted at any level of learning and in any subject area. It addresses the need to differentiate at all levels in the design process, from goals through assessment, and shows how to customise curriculum for advanced learners. Using national standards, such as the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, as the point of departure for design, the authors demonstrate how the differentiation process works and provide products to illustrate its application to curriculum in math, science, social studies, and English language arts. Special needs gifted learners, such as those who are twice-exceptional, second language learners, students from poverty, and minority students, are included as a group for further differentiation and customisation of curriculum and instruction. The book may also be used to provide a curriculum guide for teachers in a master's program in gifted education or those taking endorsement classes.

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.

Designed to assist a new educator and the experienced educator to bring new life into their classroom, each chapter is laid out in such a way that the ideas expressed can be examined and modified for use in many disciplines. It can be used across the curriculum from Math, Science, Social Studies as well as English Language Arts.,Lewie Dunn, 11/27/19 An ideal curriculum textbook and instruction manual, Curriculum Planning and Instructional Design for Gifted Learners: 3rd Edition is unreservedly recommended as an essential and core addition to school district, college, and community library Contemporary Education collections and supplemental studies lists.,James A. Cox,Midwest Book Review, 12/12/19