Joyce Vantassel-Baska, Linda Avery

Changing Tomorrow 1 (eBook, ePUB)

Leadership Curriculum for High-Ability Elementary Students (Grades 4-5)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A well-rounded curriculum needs to address the more formalized development of leadership abilities that will ensure that young people acquire the knowledge and skills essential to assuming leadership roles. Changing Tomorrow 1: Leadership Curriculum for High-Ability Students offers instructional activities for high-ability elementary school students based on the Common Core State Standards that emphasize critical and creative thinking skills and gives gifted students an opportunity to apply these skills in an integrative and substantive way. This book includes 10 lessons that address leadership skill development and assignments that require students to research and compile biographical information on six influential men and women drawn from multiple disciplines and diverse backgrounds. Instructional questions, pre- and postassessments, and appropriate rubrics are also included.

Grades 4-5

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000491043
• Artikelnr.: 62526043

Autorenporträt

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.

Linda D. Avery, Ph.D., managed the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary upon receiving her doctorate in educational leadership, policy, and planning from that institution in the late 1990s. Previously she helped establish the first gifted education program at the state level in Michigan and helped administer the long-established state program in Illinois. She has authored language arts curriculum materials based on the Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM) and oversaw the preparation of a collection of social studies curriculum units. She has conducted several state and local gifted program evaluation studies over her career and numerous professional development workshops in curriculum development and implementation. She is currently living in Seville, OH.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction to the Unit Introduction and Overview of the Unit
Curriculum Framework: Goals and Outcomes of Changing Tomorrow 1 Alignment
of the Changing Tomorrow Series With National Standards Part II: Pre- and
Postassessments and Rubric Instructions for the Assessments. Preassessment
on the Concept of Leadership Postassessment on the Concept of Leadership
Rubric for Scoring the Pre- and Postassessments on the Concept of
Leadership Part III: Lessons Lesson 1: Introduction to the Concept of
Leadership Lesson 2: Walt Disney and Vision Lesson 3: Ben Carson and
Empathic Listening Lesson 4: Amelia Earhart and Risk Taking Lesson 5: Bill
Gates and Motivation Lesson 6: Using Public Speaking to Persuade Others
Lesson 7: Clara Barton and Action Lesson 8: Tecumseh and Legacy Lesson 9:
Local Panel of Leaders Lesson 10: Analysis and Synthesis of Leadership
References Part IV: Appendices Appendix A: Teachers¿ Rap Sheets Appendix B:
Annotated Bibliography About the Authors Common Core State Standards
Alignment