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Content Based Curriculum for High Ability Learners
Content-Based Curriculum for High-Ability Learners provides a solid introduction to curriculum development in gifted and talented education. In bringing together experts from the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, this text brings cutting-edge design techniques and aligns the core content with national and state standards.
The text is divided into three sections. The first section identifies the basic principles of curriculum accelerated learning within the core content areas, use of higher order process skills, development of creative student products, and concept development and learning.
The second section incorporates these techniques into a chapter on each core content language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Key concepts, such as differentiated curriculum, grouping practices, acceleration, and assessment are woven throughout the text. In addition, each chapter on a core content area provides concrete examples from classroom-tested curriculum units.
The third section focuses on the roles of teachers, program coordinators, and administrators during curriculum selecting resources and materials, making appropriate instructional choices, and assessing student learning. The final section also offers suggestions for aligning curricula with content standards, identifies exemplary programs, and encourages educators to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their curricula.
The text is divided into three sections. The first section identifies the basic principles of curriculum accelerated learning within the core content areas, use of higher order process skills, development of creative student products, and concept development and learning.
The second section incorporates these techniques into a chapter on each core content language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Key concepts, such as differentiated curriculum, grouping practices, acceleration, and assessment are woven throughout the text. In addition, each chapter on a core content area provides concrete examples from classroom-tested curriculum units.
The third section focuses on the roles of teachers, program coordinators, and administrators during curriculum selecting resources and materials, making appropriate instructional choices, and assessing student learning. The final section also offers suggestions for aligning curricula with content standards, identifies exemplary programs, and encourages educators to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their curricula.
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450 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2010
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January 24, 2017
3rd Edition: 978-1-61821-590-1
This work is aimed at those Educators who teach high-ability learners, whether in the elementary, middle, or high school level and also those learners which continue on into the college level. The main theme of the work is to put forth a understanding of the INTEGRATED CURRICULUM MODEL (ICM)which VanTassel-Baska and Little are the developers and strongest supporters of. The model is showed to educators in easy to understand chapters full of charts and examples to lay out the model and have the reader get a better understanding of the model. The work is broken down into six sections and each builds from those before it. Full of figures and tables to aid the reader get a better understanding along with several sample activity charts. Each chapter has at the end of it a section of the conclusion as well as a Key Points Summary and a complete reference section for that chapter. At the end of the work a section about each author of each chapter and also very good index. In the conclusion chapter that gives examples of the model in use for up to twenty-five years VanTassel-Baska and Little give what they call "Voices from the Field" where educators from across the nation give their personal stories of the success of the model from all levels of education for the high-ability learner.
This work could easily be used as a text to teach courses for those educators who are or will be working with high-ability learners, but also as a guide for those who already work in the field as a new method of developing curriculum for their students using this model. School media centers from elementary to college should have this work available to educators to use as a reference also. The current price is in line of other text used in college courses at $120.00. Educators who teach high-ability learners might also consider this work for their personal library. ( )
This work is aimed at those Educators who teach high-ability learners, whether in the elementary, middle, or high school level and also those learners which continue on into the college level. The main theme of the work is to put forth a understanding of the INTEGRATED CURRICULUM MODEL (ICM)which VanTassel-Baska and Little are the developers and strongest supporters of. The model is showed to educators in easy to understand chapters full of charts and examples to lay out the model and have the reader get a better understanding of the model. The work is broken down into six sections and each builds from those before it. Full of figures and tables to aid the reader get a better understanding along with several sample activity charts. Each chapter has at the end of it a section of the conclusion as well as a Key Points Summary and a complete reference section for that chapter. At the end of the work a section about each author of each chapter and also very good index. In the conclusion chapter that gives examples of the model in use for up to twenty-five years VanTassel-Baska and Little give what they call "Voices from the Field" where educators from across the nation give their personal stories of the success of the model from all levels of education for the high-ability learner.
This work could easily be used as a text to teach courses for those educators who are or will be working with high-ability learners, but also as a guide for those who already work in the field as a new method of developing curriculum for their students using this model. School media centers from elementary to college should have this work available to educators to use as a reference also. The current price is in line of other text used in college courses at $120.00. Educators who teach high-ability learners might also consider this work for their personal library. ( )
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