Teacher's Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners

<p><em>A Teacher’s Guide to Curriculum Design for Gifted and Advanced Learners</em> 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: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Includes specific thinking models for teaching English language arts social studies and STEM. </li> <p> </p> <li>Is ideal for teachers who are looking for ways to differentiate and design lessons for their highest achieving students. </li> <p> </p> <li>Provides multiple examples of how to embed complexity within standards-based lessons. </li> <p> </p> <li>Highlights units and models from Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth curriculum. </li> <p> </p> <li>Helps teachers provide the necessary challenge for advanced learners to thrive. </li> </ul><p>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 <i>depth</i> <i>complexity</i> and <i>abstractness</i> are explained and linked to models within specific content areas to support common understanding and application of schoolwide differentiation strategies.</p>