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.

Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners

Education & Teaching

VanTassel-Baska, Joyce

Stambaugh, Tamra

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

Finding Freedom: ELA Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 6-8

Mofield, Emily

Routledge

Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Grades 4-5, Complete Set

Affective Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Grades 6-8, Complete Set

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Grade 4, Complete Set

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Grades 7-8, Complete Set

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Nonfiction Grade 4, Complete Set

A Teacher's Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners provides educators with models and strategies they can easily use to create appropriately complex differentiated lessons, questions, tasks, and projects. This must-have resource for both gifted and regular education teachers: <ul> <li>Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language arts, social studies, and STEM.</li> <li>Is ideal for teachers who are looking for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest achieving students.</li> <li>Provides multiple examples of how to embed complexity within standards-based lessons.</li> <li>Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum.</li> <li>Helps teachers provide the necessary challenge for advanced learners to thrive.</li> </ul> The models have been vetted by content experts in the relevant disciplines and were designed to guide students to develop expertise within a discipline. Definitions of widely used terms, such as depth, complexity, and abstractness, are explained and linked to models within specific content areas to support common understanding and application of schoolwide differentiation strategies.

A Teacher's Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners

The "Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program" targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary. Using three skill ladders connected to individual readings in poetry, short stories, and nonfiction, students move from lower order, concrete thinking skills to higher order, critical thinking skills. The ladders include multiple skills necessary for academic success, covering language arts standards, such as sequencing, cause and effect, classification, making generalizations, inference, and recognizing themes and concepts. The "Jacob's Ladder" guides provide teachers with an explanation of the nature and substance of supplementary tasks in reading comprehension that will help prepare students for their state assessment tests. At the same time, these tasks will move students from basic reading comprehension to more critical reading behaviors. Also included are an overview of the goals and objectives of "Jacob's Ladder" tasks and suggestions for implementation, giving every teacher of gifted readers the tools needed to create a successful reading classroom. Grades 7-9

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program - Level 5

Prufrock Press

Effective Curriculum for Underserved Gifted Students explains the need for a differentiated curriculum for gifted students typically underrepresented in gifted programs, including children of poverty and those who are from culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Features of research-based curriculum found to be effective in enhancing the academic achievement of these populations are highlighted. In addition, practical, evidence-based strategies for curriculum development and instruction are shared.

Effective Curriculum for Underserved Gifted Students: A CEC-TAG Educational Resource

Chandler, Kimberley

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