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Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (Professional Development) 1st Edition
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"What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today?"
With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas:
* Content and assessment: How to identify what to keep, what to cut, and what to create, and where portfolios and other new kinds of assessment fit into the picture.
* Program structures: How to improve our use of time and space and groupings of students and staff.
* Technology: How it's transforming teaching, and how to take advantage of students' natural facility with technology.
* Media literacy: The essential issues to address, and the best resources for helping students become informed users of multiple forms of media.
* Globalization: What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective.
* Sustainability: How to instill enduring values and beliefs that will lead to healthier local, national, and global communities.
* Habits of mind: The thinking habits that students, teachers, and administrators need to develop and practice to succeed in school, work, and life.
The answers to these questions and many more make Curriculum 21 the ideal guide for transforming our schools into what they must become: learning organizations that match the times in which we live.
- ISBN-101416609407
- ISBN-13978-1416609407
- Edition1st
- PublisherASCD
- Publication dateJanuary 5, 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
- Print length254 pages
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With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K 12 curriculum. Sharing her expertise as a world-renowned curriculum designer and calling upon the collective wisdom of 10 education thought leaders, Jacobs provides insight and inspiration in the following key areas: 1. Content and assessment--How to identify what to keep, what to cut, and what to create, and where portfolios and other new kinds of assessment fit into the picture; 2. Program structures--How to improve our use of time and space and our groupings of students and staff; 3. Technology--How it's transforming teaching, and how to take advantage of students' natural facility with technology; 4. Media literacy--The essential issues to address, and the best resources for helping students become informed users of multiple forms of media; 5. Globalization--What steps to take to help students gain a global perspective; 6. Sustainability--How to instill enduring values and beliefs that will lead to healthier local, national, and global communities; and 7. Habits of mind--The thinking habits that students, teachers, and administrators need to develop and practice to succeed in school, work, and life.
Curriculum 21 is the ideal guide for transforming our schools into what they must become: learning organizations that match the times in which we live.
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- Publisher : ASCD; 1st edition (January 5, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 254 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1416609407
- ISBN-13 : 978-1416609407
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #93,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #82 in Curricula (Books)
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About the authors
Frank W. Baker, a national media literacy educator, has conducted hundreds of professional development workshops for educators across the United States. He maintains the popular MEDIA LITERACY CLEARINGHOUSE web site (www.frankwbaker.com) and writes a regular blogpost on media literacy at WWW.MIDDLEWEB.COM.
DR. HEIDI HAYES JACOBS, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum Designers, Inc., is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of curriculum and instruction. She has served as an education consultant to schools nationally and internationally on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum mapping, dynamic instruction, and 21st century strategic planning. She is the author of "Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation" and "Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12", "Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping", all published by ASCD. "Active Literacy across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening" is published by Eye on Education. Dr. Jacobs has published numerous articles which have appeared in professional journals. She just just released The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates and Tools for Effective Professional Development, co-authored with Ann Johnson; and, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for A Changing World will be released in January 2010 and was selected as the worldwide member book by ASCD.
In January, 2010, she will be addressing the United Nations Council on Teaching about the UN. Over the years
she has taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, from 1981 to the present. Dr. Jacobs has worked with the College Board, NBC Sunday Today Show, PBS Teacherline, the Discovery Channel, Children's Television Workshop, CBS National Sunrise Semester, ASCD, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet Education Department at Lincoln Center, Peace Corps, the National School Conference Institute, the Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association, East Asian Council of Overseas Schools, The Tri-Association of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the International Baccalaureate, the European Council of International Schools, and state education departments. She has been interviewed and featured in the New York Times, Educational Leadership, and Child Magazine, NASSP's High School and National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast. Dr. Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric Company, and Bowmar Publishing. ASCD has two video series focusing on Dr. Jacobs' curriculum models. In addition, Video Journal of Education features a series on her work, including Aurora Awards platinum award-winning Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening across the Curriculum video series.
Her doctoral work was completed at Columbia University's Teachers College in 1981 where she studied under a national Graduate Leadership Fellowship from the United States Office of Education. Her master's degree is from UMASS at Amherst and her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City. The fundamental backbone of her experience comes from her years as a teacher of high school, junior high school, and elementary children in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York. She is married with two children and lives in Westchester County, New York.
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This book will be particularly useful for educators, but may have value for parents and students as well, Anyone interested in how education has to change in the modern era will also benefit. I rate it at four stars instead of five because it is a compendium of assorted topics and views and thus lacks the kind of coherence a single author might have.