Creating Integrated Curriculum: Proven Ways to Increase Student Learning - Softcover

Drake, Susan M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803967179 ISBN 13: 9780803967175

Publisher: Corwin, 1998

Synopsis

Here′s a comprehensive look at how an integrated curriculum can work for your school or district. Using what she calls a new "Story Model," the author helps you make sense of the changes involved in integrating your school′s curriculum. She gives you the tools you need to create a curriculum that takes into account the complexity of today′s world and how all knowledge is interrelated. Your students will benefit from integrated curriculum by:

• Developing a higher level of thinking
• Transferring their learning to the real world
• Acquiring the skills they need to become lifelong learners

This book helps answer these crucial questions about learning in your school or district: 1. What is worth knowing? 2. How can we know when a student knows it? 3. How do students learn best and what does this mean to teaching? Once you′ve answered these questions, you′ll have a better idea of what curriculum changes you need to make. Drake shows you how (and when) to integrate your curriculum. She offers you detailed descriptions of several different, workable approaches.

The information she gives you is applicable for district use as well as for individual schools or departments. Designed for school leaders, curriculum developers, and curriculum supervisors, this book brings integrated curriculum into sharp focus and helps educators find a curriculum model that can work for their school′s particular needs.

About this title

About the Author

Susan M. Drake is a professor in the Graduate and Undergraduate Department of Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. She earned a PhD in curriculum from the University of Toronto. She has taught at all levels of education. She taught physical education and Health and English for 18 years at the high school level. She worked on school improvement teams at the elementary level and spent one year as an elementary teacher. As well, she was a partner in a private adult education company that provided organizational development, consulting and adult learning courses. Today, Susan teaches curriculum/assessment courses for Masters of Education and doctoral students and for undergraduate students who will soon be entering the teaching field. As a researcher, she seeks out educators who are involved in exemplary practices, as she believes that a good practice makes good theory. This is Susan’s seventh book on the topic of curriculum integration and she has published over 48 articles and 9 book chapters. She coauthored Meeting Standards Through Integrated Curriculum (2004) for ASCD with Rebecca Burns. As well, she authored Creating Integrated Curriculum (1998) for Corwin Press (1998) and Planning for Integrated Curriculum: The Call to Adventure (1993) for ASCD. She has lead interdisciplinary curriculum design teams from the school to the provincial level. Susan travels extensively and has done workshops/presentations across North America and in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803967179
• ISBN 13: 9780803967175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256