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Curriculum Starter Cards

Kaplan Curriculum Starter CardsCurriculum Starter Cards: Developing Differentiated Lessons for Gifted Students
by Sandra N. Kaplan and Michael W. Cannon (Paperback - Feb. 1, 2002)
 
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Save time, differentiate the curriculum for gifted learners, and relate content and skills to the established national standards. Curriculum Starter Cards is a collection of cards that presents differentiated learning experiences that relate to the basic content and skills of the four core academic areas (science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies). The determination of what constitutes a differentiated curriculum is based both on national theory and research.

With these cards, you can build units of instruction that emphasize depth and complexity, and include exciting independent study, creative student products, higher level thinking skills, and much more in your curriculum.

This program offers the perfect combination of easy-to-use curriculum cards, fun creative ideas for the classroom, and accountability based on national standards. Perfect for use by individual classroom teachers developing lessons or schoolwide curriculum development teams, this is a Prufrock bestseller. Grades K–12 

Growing Up Gifted

Growing Up Gifted

Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School (7th Edition) by Barbara Clark (Hardcover - Apr. 23, 2007)

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This leading introduction to gifted and talented children retains proven parts of its original structure and combines it with the knowledge and best practices from a variety of sources. It incorporates knowledge from many disciplines and integrates best practices from classrooms to inform readers of how to work with children who grow up gifted and bring their gifts to the world. The author encourages readers to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. The new edition will also feature more information for general education teachers on how to work with gifted and talented students in inclusive environments by offering more strategies and activities that educators can utilize in the classroom as well as in home-based settings. Throughout, the author incorporates knowledge from many disciplines, a wide range of research, best practices available for nurturing giftedness in the classroom, assessment and evaluation for the success of the student and the program, and a structure that gives a step-by-step approach to using these skills in the classroom and at home. Readers will begin to understand intelligence in order to help more children realize their unique potential of gifts and talents. Overall, readers will enjoy a text that is readable, uncovers some exciting new ideas and strategies, and makes every teacher at home and at school a knowledgeable partner in the process of children growing up gifted. For teachers of gifted and talented students.