Parallel Curriculum Units for Language Arts, Grades 6-12 - Softcover

Purcell, Jeanne H.; Leppien, Jann H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412965381 ISBN 13: 9781412965385

Verlag: Corwin, 2009

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Sample units demonstrate how to use the Parallel Curriculum Model to design high-quality curriculum in language arts. Each unit includes instructions, assessments, and skills/standards.

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Jeanne H. Purcell provides leadership for Advanced Placement and gifted and talented education at the Connecticut State Department of Education. Prior to her work at the State Department of Education, she was an administrator for Rocky Hill Public Schools, where she was a K-8 curriculum coordinator and conducted a three-year staff development initiative on curriculum differentiation; a program specialist with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, where she worked collaboratively with other researchers on national issues related to the achievement of high-achieving young people; and a staff developer to school districts across the country and Canada. She was an English teacher, grades 7-12, for eighteen years in Connecticut school districts.

She is the author of five books and has published many articles that have appeared in Educational Leadership, Educational and Psychological Measurement, National Association of Secondary School Principals¿ Bulletin, Our Children: The National PTA Magazine, Gifted Child Quarterly, Parenting for High Potential, and Journal for the Education of the Gifted. Her special interests include curriculum and instruction, with a particular interest in differentiation for all learners.

Jann H. Leppien is an associate professor at the University of Great Falls in Great Falls, Montana, where she teaches course work in curriculum and instruction, gifted education, assessment and learning, educational research, and methods in social sciences. Additionally she teaches curriculum courses and thinking skills courses online and in the Three Summers Program at the University of Connecticut. Before joining the faculty at the University of Great Falls, she worked as a research assistant for The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT). She has been a classroom teacher, enrichment specialist, and coordinator of a gifted education program in Montana. She is the co-author of, The Multiple Menu Model: A Practical Guide for Developing Differentiated Curriculum, and The Parallel Curriculum: A Design to Develop High Potential and Challenge High-Ability Students. She conducts workshops for teachers in the areas of differentiated instruction, curriculum design and assessment, thinking skills, and program development.

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• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412965381
• ISBN 13: 9781412965385
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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