ABSTRACT
Modern Curriculum for Gifted and Advanced Academic Students addresses the need for advanced curriculum design in an age of national standards and 21st-century learning innovations. The text and its authors work from the assumption that the most advanced learners need a qualitatively different design of learning experiences in order to develop their potential into outstanding achievement, answering the question, “How should we design learning experiences for our most advanced academic students in the foundational curriculum areas?” This book provides the most contemporary thinking about how to design in-depth courses of study in the foundational curriculum areas with a high degree of complexity and advanced content. The book includes chapters articulating specific design components like creative thinking, critical thinking, and authentic research, but also subject-specific chapters in mathematics, language arts, science, and social studies to demonstrate application of those design components.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section 1|88 pages
Modern Approaches to Gifted Education Curriculum
chapter Chapter 1|19 pages
Curriculum Design in an Era of Ubiquitous Information and Technology
section Section 2|159 pages
Components of Modern Gifted Education Curriculum
chapter Chapter 8|42 pages
Inquiry Learning Models and Gifted Education
chapter Chapter 9|17 pages
Independent Research, Creative Productivity, and Personalization of Learning
chapter Chapter 10|15 pages
Research Experiences for High School Students
section Section 3|148 pages
Developing Domain Expertise through Rigorous Curriculum Design
