Full Description
Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners provides a theoretical, research-based framework and practical ideas for writing, implementing, and adapting curriculum for gifted learners in a standards-based era.
Readers are first introduced to various curriculum theories, the Integrated Curriculum Model, curriculum reform, and a process for curriculum design and development, culminating in examples of key curriculum products.
Specific core subject areas and non-core subject areas (including thinking skills, creativity, leadership, and the arts) are addressed with practical examples and connections to standards with adaptations for gifted learners. At-risk populations, connections to technology, interdisciplinary approaches, assessment options, and instructional and classroom management strategies are also emphasized and discussed in detail.
Finally, leadership and programming options, as well as new directions in curriculum for gifted learners, provide the reader with an overall examination of a comprehensive approach for teaching, adapting, and leading best-practice initiatives in curriculum for gifted learners.
Contents
I. THE PROCESS OF CURRICULUM MAKING.
1. Curriculum for the Gifted: Past, Present, and Future Directions.
a. The forces that drive curriculum.
b. A curriculum philosophy for the gifted.
c. Research on curriculum for the gifted.
d. Curriculum dimensions for the gifted:
i. Content.
ii. Process/Product.
iii. Epistemological/Concept.
e. Conclusion.
f. Questions for discussion.
g. References.
2. Curriculum Design Issues in Developing a Curriculum for the Gifted.
a. Gifted learner characteristics: A prelude to differentiated curriculum dimensions.
b. Content, process/product, and concept dimensions.
c. The Integrated Curriculum Model.
d. Accommodations for individual differences.
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