Full Description
"The authors are sensitive to the constraints that operate on teachers even as they are open to ways in which teachers can refashion their classes and curricula to reach more children in more effective ways. This book will help teachers enliven and enrich their classrooms and forge new connections across concepts and curricula."
—From the Foreword by Howard Gardner
"On the one hand, teachers and other curriculum workers are held accountable for understanding, organizing, implementing, and designing instruction and assessing standards-based outcomes. On the other hand, they are also being admonished to teach for understanding, thinking skills, enduring learning, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, individual differences, and developmental levels. This book provides a wealth of delightful, creative, and compelling strategies, lessons, and techniques for making sense of these many diverse theories."
—Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento
Develop powerful instructional tools that target diverse learning needs!
In this unique and practical book, authors Robin Fogarty and Judy Stoehr demonstrate an approach for creating integrated curricula that develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students. This second edition provides planning methods for interactive lessons and strategies for implementing "big ideas" or themes. Offering voices from academia and the classroom, this research-based volume:
Provides strategies for building collaborative teacher teams
Presents a six-step process for developing thematic learning units
Highlights ways to thread life skills throughout the curriculum
Describes types of assessments for integrated curricula
This insightful handbook emphasizes a learner-centered, interdisciplinary approach and holistic, experiential learning that leads to lifelong skills and equal opportunities for all children to succeed.
Contents
Foreword by Howard Gardner
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Why's and Wherefore's
A Look at the Book
1. Theories
Caine and Caine's Twelve Principles
From the Tower: Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
From the Field: Multiple Intelligences
From the Tower: Fogarty's Models of Curriculum Integration
From the Field: Curriculum Integration
Differentiated Instruction
Frames of Mind - Grid Talk
2. Teams
Teams Rap
List of Words (Bombardment)
Jagged Profile Activities
Jagged Profile Implications
Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities
Forming Teams: Top Down or Bottom Up?
Beginning the Conversation: It's a Start!
Teaming Conference
Team Meetings
Guide on the Side: Facilitating the Team or PLC
3. Themes
Themes as Organizing Centers
Themes as Catalysts
Thematic Teaching Theorists
T-H-E-M-E-S
Basic Models
Introduction to Tandems - Themes
Elementary Lesson: "Miss Mary Mack"
Middle School Lesson: Africa - South of the Sahara
High School Lesson: Medieval Europe During the Black Death
Matrix Mixer
4. Threads
Reform for the Twenty-First Century
Problem Solving Becomes the Thread
Life Skills
Basic Models
Introduction to Tandems - Threaded
Elementary Lesson: Threaded Model: Prediction
Middle School Lesson: Threaded Model: Cause and Effect
High School Lesson: Threaded Model: Communication
Kids Incorporated and the Cemetery Study
Authors' Note
The Tri-Assessment Model
Rubric for Integrating Learning
Using the Tri-Assessment Model
Speech Fugue: Elementary
Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools
Bibliography
Index
