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
Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language arts, social studies, and STEM.
Is ideal for teachers who are looking for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest achieving students.
Provides multiple examples of how to embed complexity within standards-based lessons.
Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum.
Helps teachers provide the necessary challenge for advanced learners to thrive.
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.
Author(s): Tamra Stambaugh, Emily Mofeld
Publisher: Routledge/Prufrock Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 159
City: New York
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Contents
1 Talent Development and the Development of Expertise and Creative Production
2 Definitions and Models for Differentiation: An Introduction
3 Models for Differentiating Instruction in English Language Arts - Literature
4 Models for Differentiating Instruction Using English Language Arts - Informational Texts
5 Models for Differentiating Instruction in Social Studies
6 Models for Differentiating Instruction in the STEM Fields
7 Models for Incorporating Visual Analysis of Art
8 Creating Interdisciplinary and Intradisciplinary Connections
9 Making Differentiation Work: Additional Considerations
Appendices
Appendix A Models for Complexity: Blank/Annotated Wheels
A1 Introduction to Using Analysis Wheels
A2 Literary Analysis Wheel - Primary and Literary Analysis Wheel
A3 Fictional Writing Wheel
A4 Text Analysis Wheel - Primary
A5 Rhetorical Analysis Wheel
A6 Argumentative Writing Wheel
A7 Social Studies Connections Wheel
A8 Primary Source Analysis Wheel
A9 STEM Analysis Wheel
A10 Visual Analysis Wheel
Appendix B Models for Depth
B1 Choice-Reasoning Chart - Humanities
B2 Problem-Reasoning Chart - STEM
Appendix C Models for Abstractness
C1 Concept Organizer
C2 Big Idea Reflection
References
Authors' Biographies
