Content-Based Curriculum for Advanced Learners - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032315865 ISBN 13: 9781032315867

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

The fourth edition of Content-Based Curriculum for Advanced Learners provides readers with a complete and up-to-date introduction to core elements of curriculum development in gifted education with implications for school-based implementation.

Written by key experts in the field, this text is essential to the development of high-powered, rich, and complex curricula that treat content, process, product, and concept development considerations as equal partners in the task of educating gifted learners. Along with revised chapters, this edition contains new chapters on culturally responsive curriculum, the performing arts, robotics, and engineering design, as well as social and emotional learning. Additional material concerning talent trajectories across the lifespan accompanies a discussion of honors curriculum in higher education, rounding out this comprehensive resource.

This master text is a must read for educators interested in executing effective curriculum and instructional interventions to support learning for gifted and advanced learners.

About this title

About the Author

Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and founding director of the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. Her research interests continue to focus on appropriate interventions with gifted learners and talent development.

Catherine A. Little is a Professor in Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include professional learning, differentiation of curriculum and instruction for advanced learners, and classroom questioning practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032315865
• ISBN 13: 9781032315867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 12
• Editor: VanTassel-Baska Joyce, Little Catherine A.