| Synopsis: |
"Curriculum Planning and Instructional Design for Gifted Learners" 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 author's experience as an authority in the field of gifted education makes this text an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike. Ambitious and impressive in scope, it gives thorough attention to crucial issues such as effective curriculum delivery, implementation strategies, and learner-outcome assessment. Curriculum goals, learner outcomes, teacher-learning activities, instructional strategy design and selection, and management activities are among the important topics addressed in the individual chapters. The latter part of the book contains specific sample curriculum units that exemplify strategies described throughout the book. This title: provides a comprehensive framework for curriculum planning; designs an effective planning model for instruction; outlines specific instructional strategies and curriculum units; and presents guidelines for learning assessment and curriculum evaluation. |