The expert guide to the major issues, the chief trends, and the most effective models and solutions for gifted and talented curriculum!
Designed in a straightforward, no-nonsense fashion with the busy educator in mind, Curriculum for Gifted and Talented Students presents the areas of the most significance, most interest, and most debate in gifted education today.
Key features include:
- An astute and comprehensive overview by editor and leader within the field, Joyce Van Tassel-Baska
- Eleven influential articles at the core of curriculum for the gifted
- Visionary projections of future trends in curriculum development
- Examples and suggestions for putting research findings to use in practice
This ready reference offers the guidance, the pragmatic application, and the insight of top authorities, empowering decision makers with all the tools they need to shape a successful and enriching curriculum for gifted students.
The ERGE Series:
The National Association for Gifted Children series Essential Readings in Gifted Education is a 12 volume collection of seminal articles from Gifted Child Quarterly. Put the knowledge and power of more than 25 years of research on giftedness and talent into your hands with the leading theories, studies, and findings the experts in the field have to offer.
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About the Editors
Series Introduction – Sally M. Reis
Introduction to Curriculum for the Gifted – Joyce Van Tassel-Baska
1. Effective Curriculum and Instructional Models for Talented Students – Joyce Van Tassel-Baska
2. Interview With Dr. A. Harry Passow – Robert J. Kirschenbaum
3. Developing Scope and Sequence in Curriculum – C. June Maker
4. Myth: There is a Single Curriculum for the Gifted – Sandra N. Kaplan
5. What Makes a Problem Real: Stalking the Illusive Meaning of Qualitative Differences in Gifted Education – Joseph S. Renzulli
6. A General Theory for the Development of Creative Productivity Through the Pursuit of Ideal Acts of Learning – Joseph S. Renzulli
7. The Interdisciplinary Concept Model: Theory and Practice – Heidi Hayes Jacobs, James H. Borland
8. Curriculum for the Gifted and Talented at the Secondary Level – A. Harry Passow
9. The Multiple Menu Model for Developing Differentiated Curriculum for the Gifted and Talented – Joseph S. Renzulli
10. A Mathematics Curriculum for the Gifted and Talented – Grayson H. Wheatley
11. A National Study of Science Curriculum Effectiveness With High Ability Students – Joyce Van Tassel-Baska, George Bass, Roger Rics, Donna Poland, and Linda D. Avery
Index
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Sally M. Reis is a professor and the department head of the Educational Psychology Department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored more than 130 articles, 9 books, 40 book chapters, and numerous monographs and technical reports. Her research interests are related to special populations of gifted and tal-ented students, including: students with learning disabilities, gifted females and diverse groups of talented students. She is also interested in extensions of the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for both gifted and talented students and as a way to expand offerings and provide general enrichment to identify talents and potentials in students who have not been previously identified as gifted. She has traveled extensively conducting workshops and providing profes-sional development for school districts on gifted education, enrichment programs, and talent development programs. She is co-author of The Schoolwide Enrichment Model, The Secondary Triad Model, Dilemmas in Talent Development in the Middle Years, and a book published in 1998 about women’s talent development titled Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females. Sally serves on several editorial boards, including the Gifted Child Quarterly, and is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children.