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    Curriculum 21: Chapter 3-

    Upgrading Content:
    Provocation, Invigoration,
    and Replacement

    What content should be kept?


    What content should be cut?
    What content should be created?

    CONTENT- central element in curriculum


    design and can be organized within disciplines
    or interdisciplinary designs
    Tenets Leading to Content Upgrades

    •Global perspective is developed

    •Personal and local perspective is cultivated

    •Whole child is looked at

    •Future careers and work options are developed

    •Real-world practice

    •Technology and media are expanded

    •Complexity of content matches age and stage of the learner


    Examining the Disciplines

    Status
    the Quo!
    Challenge
    Social Studies as Perspectives
    on Humanity
    Traditional divisions Go through fission and become
    FUSED
    Geography
    History POLITICAL ECONOMICS
    Anthropology ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
    Sociology HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
    Economics HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
    Political science ANTHROPOLOGICAL POLITICS
    What to do in social studies?

    •Expose students to multiple maps for information


    and insight

    •Discuss changing economic realities

    •Prepare “school leavers” to function


    independently in the real world

    •Take time to teach global studies

    •Deemphasize state history for case studies of the


    states
    Sciences in Action: Layers
    and Breakthroughs

    Four Science Subset Strands: What if we


    organized the
    1.The Living World curriculum around
    problems rather
    2.The Planet Earth & Beyond than separating the
    sciences?
    3.The Physical World

    4.The Material World


    Neglected area of science- astronomy

    Elementary often emphasizes life science at the


    expense of physical science topics

    Fears of controversy in science courses- religion,


    genetic engineering, and space exploration

    Let students become “detectives and solution makers”

    Encourage curiosity, being creative, and using senses


    for making observations
    Educating the Person: Health &
    Physical Education

    Body
    Cardio-respiratory endurance
    Composition

    Five Spiral
    Components
    Muscular
    Flexibility
    Strength

    Muscular
    Endurance
    English and Literature

    Implement…

    •Vocabulary development

    •Creative note taking and note making

    •Editing and revising strategies

    ROOT OF ALL PERFORMANCE:


    READING
    WRITING
    SPEAKING
    LISTENING
    Other ideas in English and Lit

    Make use of:


    Podcasts
    Video conferences
    Debates
    Comedy forums
    Interviews
    Oral defense…………………

    Provide at least one experience/year in which the genre


    of film is studied

    Use rap to convey messages

    View poetry slams from students in the Bronx to


    see/hear moving and powerful words
    Language Instruction

    Did you know…

    China will soon have the largest English-speaking


    population?

    The most frequently spoken languages are:


    Mandarin Chinese @ 13.22%
    Spanish @ 4.88%
    English @ 4.68%
    Arabic @ 3.12 %
    Memorizing
    Need to vs
    understand Reasoning
    language
    first

    Need to
    support
    math
    geniuses

    Teaching Math as a Language


    The Arts: Aesthetic Senses,
    Ideas, and Emotions

    Take in and
    from artwork
    receive
    and and through it.
    meaning and
    performance
    insight
    Curriculum 21: Chapter 4-
    New School Versions:
    Reinventing and Reuniting
    School Program Structures

    Will graduates of 2110…

    •Be part of virtual learning magnet programs?

    •Have global network buddies?

    •Be in holographic yearbooks?

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