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?