Carol Ann Tomlinson, Sandra N. Kaplan, Jeanne H. Purcell

The Parallel Curriculum in the Classroom, Book 2

Units for Application Across the Content Areas, K-12

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on the Parallel Curriculum Model, this book provides curriculum units in social studies, science, art, and language arts for use in primary, elementary, middle, and high school settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1250g
• ISBN-13: 9781412925273
• ISBN-10: 1412925274
• Artikelnr.: 21991398

Autorenporträt

Carol Ann Tomlinson's career as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher. She taught in high school, preschool, and middle school, and worked with heterogeneous classes as well as special classes for students identified as gifted and students with learning difficulties. Her public school career also included 12 years as a program administrator of special services for advanced and struggling learners. She was Virginia's Teacher of the Year in 1974. She is professor of educational leadership, foundations, and policy at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education; a researcher for the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented; a codirector of the University of Virginia's Summer Institute on Academic Diversity; and president of the National Association for Gifted Children. Special interests throughout her career have included curriculum and instruction for advanced learners and struggling learners, effective instruction in heterogeneous settings, and bridging the fields of general education and gifted education. She is author of over 100 articles, book chapters, books, and other professional development materials, including How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, Leadership for Differentiated Schools and Classrooms, the facilitator's guide for the video staff development sets called Differentiating Instruction, and At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, as well as a professional inquiry kit on differentiation. She works throughout the United States and abroad with teachers whose goal is to develop more responsive heterogeneous classrooms.

Inhaltsangabe

Introducing the Parallel Curriculum Model in the Classroom by Carol Ann
Tomlinson and Sandra Kaplan
About the Book
Using the Model and Units for Professional Development
Acknowledgments
I. Your Story, My Story, History: A Unit for Kindergarten Students by
Deborah Burns
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallels Remain Central in Teaching and Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
II. Wind - The Unequal Heating of the Earth's Surface: A Core Unit on
Weather for Elementary Students by Jeanne Purcell
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Core Parallel Remains Central in Teaching and Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
III. Adaptation: A Social Studies Unit on Cultures for Elementary Students
by Sandra N. Kaplan
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallels Remain Central in Teaching and Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
IV. Open Your Eyes: A Unit on Visual Art History and Artistry for Middle
School Students by Meg Eason Hines
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallel of Practice Remains Central in Teaching and
Learning
Unit Sequence, Description and Teacher Reflections
V. Historical Sleuthing: A Parallel of Practice Unit for Middle School
Students by Carol Horn and Janice Strauss
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallel of Practice Remains Central in Teaching and
Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
Unit Resources
Unit References
VI. The Power of Exponents: A Middle or High School Math Unit Incorporating
All Four Parallels by Kristen Wogman Baron
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallels Remain Central in Teaching and Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
Core Curriculum Lessons
Curriculum of Connections
Curriculum of Practice Lessons
Curriculum of Identity Lessons
VII. With Liberty and Justice for All: A U.S. Government Unit Based on the
Core and Identity Parallels for Middle or High School Students by Cindy
Strickland
Background of Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Core and Identity Parallels Remain Central in Teaching and
Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
Unit Resources
VIII. Using Biography and Autobiography to Understand Challenge, Choice,
and Chance: A Unit for High School Students Incorporating All Four
Parallels by Jann H. Leppien and Curt Bobbitt
Background for Unit
Content Framework
Making Sure the Parallels Remain Central in Teaching and Learning
Unit Sequence, Description, and Teacher Reflections
Core Curriculum Lessons
Curriculum of Practice Lessons
Curriculum of Connections Lessons
Curriculum of Identity Lessons
Index