JOYCE VAN TASSELL-BASKA and Tamra Stambaugh - Comprehensive Curriculum For Gifted Learners

<b><i>Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners</i> provides a theoretical, research-based framework and practical ideas for writing, implementing, and adapting curriculum for gifted learners in a standards-based era.</b> <p> 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. <p> 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. <p> Finally, leadership and programming options, as well as new directions in curriculum for gifted learners, provide the reader wit Minimize