This comprehensive text establishes an exciting curriculum design model that caters to the unique needs of the gifted learner. While giving careful consideration to the current climate of educational reform, the text is able to preserve and enhance the invaluable enterprise of gifted education.

The author’s extensive experience in the field of gifted education makes this text an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike. Ambitious and impressive in scope, the text gives thorough attention to crucial issues such as effective curriculum delivery, implementation strategies, and learner-outcome assessment.

Special Features

• Provides a comprehensive framework for curriculum planning
• Designs an effective planning model for instruction
• Outlines specific instructional strategies and curriculum units
• Presents guidelines for learning assessment and curriculum evaluation

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Research on Curriculum Models in Gifted Education
3. Standards of Learning and Gifted Documents
4. Developing System-Wide Curriculum Documents
5. The Nature of Curriculum Needs of Gifted Learners
6. Developing a Philosophy and Goals for a Gifted Program
7. Developing Learner Outcomes
8. Designing Activities and Selecting Resources
9. Selecting Instructional Strategies
10. Employing Appropriate Curriculum Management Strategies
11. Implementing Curricula for the Gifted
12. Assessment of Learning and Evaluation of Curriculum
13. Toward Coherent Curriculum Policy in Gifted Education
Appendix: Sample Curriculum Units

360 pages
2003/paperback/ISBN 978-0-89108-292-7
$62.00