Publisher's Synopsis
One of the predominant service delivery options for secondary gifted students in America's high schools for the past two decades has been the Advanced Placement (AP) program. The book addresses misconceptions about AP courses, the benefits of AP courses for gifted learners, suggested core and targeted teaching strategies for differentiation within AP courses, and supporting and impeding structures for implementing and sustaining a coherent AP program within a high school program of studies.
Topics covered in Advanced Placement Programs and Gifted Students include:
- misconceptions about AP courses,
- benefits of AP courses for gifted learners,
- teaching strategies, and
- AP program coherency.
