Full Description
This book presents an innovative Multidimensional Curriculum Model (MdCM) that develops future thinking literacy among all ages and levels of school students. It combines theory and practice and is highly applicable for policy makers, curriculum coordinators, lecturers at colleges of education, graduate students, and teachers, who are challenged daily to provide meaningful and up-to-date learning. It will aid teachers to prepare learners for the fast-changing world and equip them with skills that will help them control their futures.
It combines latest teaching strategies of transdisciplinarity, phenomenon-based, project based, and problem-based learning, in a unique manner so as to develop 21st century skills. More specifically, it aims at developing higher order thinking skills and processes referred to as scientific, creative, and future thinking. It covers core and non-core-curriculum domains, multi and transdisciplinary teaching, as well as designing curricula for the gifted, the able and students at risk. It applies the latest theories on constructivism and carefully selected tools authentically and relevantly to create interest and challenge, addressing learning from personal, global, and time perspectives.
Each chapter highlights a strategy or thinking tool, commencing with theory, followed by a unit description and lesson plans. The chapters each end with a final product named the future scenario. This scenario, written by students projecting themselves into the future, is based on accumulated knowledge, summarizes their learning, and illustrates future thinking literacy.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributor
Part 1: Future Thinking Literacy: The Multidimensional Curriculum Model
1 Dynamic Curricula Promoting Future Thinking Literacy: The Multidimensional Curriculum Model
1 Meaningful Learning and Developing 21st Century Skills
2 Conceptual Framework for Curriculum Model Development
3 Developing Thinking Skills
4 The Construction and Components of the Multidimensional Curriculum Model (MdCM)
5 21st Century Thinking Processes Developed by MdCM
6 Efffectiveness Data
7 Learning in Future Thinking Societies (LIFTS) Center
2 Teaching Future Thinking Literacy: Curriculum Design and Development
1 Principles
2 Content and Process
3 Products
4 Designing a Multidimensional Curriculum
5 Additional Key Components
6 Putting It All Together: Developing Future Thinking Literacy
7 Developing a Unit of Study
Part 2: Updating the Curriculum in Core Domains
3 Science and Technology: Genetics
1 Science and Technology
2 Example Unit and Lessons
3 Unit Description
4 Lesson Plans
5 Lesson 1-2
6 Lesson 3
7 Lesson 4-5
8 Lesson 6
9 Lesson 7
10 Lesson 8-9
11 Lesson 10-11
12 Lesson 12
13 Future Scenario
4 Mathematics: Consumerism and the Percentages
1 Teaching Math
2 The Percentage
3 Consumerism
4 Example Unit and Lessons
5 Unit Description
6 Lesson Plans
7 Lesson 1
8 Lessons 2-3
9 Lessons 4-5
10 Lessons 6-7
11 Lessons 8-9
12 Lesson 10
13 Future Scenario
5 Language Arts: English as a Foreign Language
1 Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the Arab Sector in Israel
2 Thinking Maps
3 Guinness World Records
4 Example Unit and Lesson Plans
5 Lesson Plans
6 Lesson 1
7 Lessons 2-3
8 Lessons 4-5
9 Lessons 6-7
10 Lessons 8-9
11 Lessons 10-11
12 Future Scenario
Appendix 1: Thinking Maps Templates
Appendix 2: Worksheet (Lessons 4-5)
6 Social Studies: Community Settlements
1 Social Studies
2 Thinking Hats
3 Three-Stage Application of Six Thinking Hats in MdCM
4 Example Unit and Lesson Plans
5 Lesson Plans
6 Lessons 1-2
7 Lessons 3-4
8 Lessons 5-7
9 Lessons 8-10
10 Lessons 11-12
11 Lessons 13-14
12 Future Scenario
Part 3: Multidimensional Curriculum for Non-Core Domains
7 The Bible: Leaders and Leadership
1 Leadership, Creative Thinking, and Problem Solving
2 Leadership in the Bible
3 Example Unit and Lesson Plans
4 Lesson Plans
5 Lesson 1
6 Lesson 2
7 Lessons 3-4
8 Lessons 5-6
9 Lessons 7-8
10 Lessons 9-12
11 Lesson 13
12 Future Scenario
Appendix: Problem Solving Process
8 Music: The Beatles
1 Music Education
2 Cognitive Contribution
3 Personal and Social Contribution
4 The Beatles
5 Example Unit and Lessons
6 Lesson Plans
7 Lesson 1
8 Lesson 2
9 Lesson 3
10 Lesson 4-5
11 Lesson 6
12 Lesson 7
13 Lesson 8
14 Future Scenario
9 Life Skills: Me Myself and I
1 Life Skills
2 Life Skills in 1st Grade on the Topic of Self
3 Example Unit and Lessons
4 Lesson Plans
5 Lesson 1
6 Lessons 2-3
7 Lesson 4
8 Lesson 5
9 Lesson 6
10 Lessons 7-8
11 Lessons 9-10
12 Lesson 11
13 Lesson 12
14 Future Scenario
15 Additional Products and Units
16 Unit on Accepting Others
17 Unit on Violence
18 Future Scenario
Part 4: Multidimensional Curriculum Integrating Domains
10 Energy: The Phenomenon-Based Approach
1 Phenomenon-Based Learning
2 Energy
3 Example Unit and Lesson Plans
4 Lesson Plans
5 Lesson 1
6 Lessons 2-7
7 Lessons 8-9
8 Lessons 10-11
9 Lessons 12-13
10 Lesson 14
Enrichment Activity
Appendix
11 Jerusalem: The Transdisciplinary Perspective
1 Interdisciplinarity and Transdisiplinarity Teaching and Learning
2 Israel's Culture and Heritage and the City of Jerusalem
3 Example Unit and Lessons
4 Lesson Plans
5 Lessons 1-2
