The parallel curriculum : a design to develop high potential and challenge high-ability learners
Publisher's description: Offering a new perspective on developing curriculum and instruction, the parallel curriculum model is meant for use in both heterogeneous and homogeneous classroom settings. Whether students are working at a basic level of skill and understanding or at the highest ability ready for more complex learning, teachers can use this model with confidence. The parallel curriculum model offers four parallel approaches to curriculum development to ensure rich curriculum for all learners, and illustrates ascending intellectual demand as a means of extending the intensity of challenge as students develop along a continuum toward expertise in learning. Clearly, education benefits from a variety of models from which teachers and schools can select to most appropriately address the learning needs of students. Here, the authors illustrate how use of the parallels shape curriculum for students--and the ongoing professional growth of educators themselves
1 online resource (xvii, 270 pages) : illustrations
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The rationale for an evolving conception of curriculum to develop expertise
An overview of the parallel curriculum model
The essentials of curriculum design
The core curriculum parallel
The curriculum of connections parallel
The curriculum of practice parallel
The curriculum of identity parallel
Making decisions about the use of the parallel curriculum model
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010