The parallel curriculum : a design to develop learner potential and challenge advanced learners / Carol Ann Tomlinson [and 7 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomlinson, Carol A., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gifted children--Education--Curricula.

Gifted children.

Curriculum planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, [2009]

Summary:

Engage students with a rich curriculum that strengthens their capacity as learners and thinkers! Every learner is somewhere on a path toward expertise in a content area. This resource promotes a model for developing high-quality curriculum that moves learners along the continuum toward expertise and provides sample units and rubrics to help implement differentiated curriculum. Teachers can use four curriculum parallels that incorporate Ascending Intellectual Demand to: Determine current student performance levels; Appropriately challenge all students in each subject area; Extend the abilities of students who perform at advanced levels; Provide learning activities that elevate analytical, critical, and creative thinking.--publisher.

Contents:

1. The rationale and guiding principles for an evolving conception of curriculum

2. An overview of the parallel curriculum model

3. Thinking about the elements of curriculum design

4. The core curriculum parallel

5. The curriculum of connections parallel

6. The curriculum of practice parallel

7. The curriculum of identity parallel

8. Ascending intellectual demand in the parallel curriculum model.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452239200

1452239207

9781412961318

1412961319

9781452222981

1452222983

OCLC:

761238876