Description
This updated resource offers ten models that allow teachers to work together to create learner-centered classrooms by grouping elements from various content areas into a coherent, standards-based curriculum.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
What Is This Book All About?
Why Bother?
The Theorists: Research on the Brain and Learning
The Practitioners: Abandonment of an Overloaded Curriculum and Adherence to Standards of Learning
The Parents: What Will Our Children Need 25 Years From Now?
The Students: Education Is a Vaccination
How Can the Curriculum Be Integrated?
10 Models of Integrating the Curricula
Agree/Disagree Introductory Activity
Four-Fold Concept Development Activity
Examples of the Four-Fold Concept Development Activity
How Do Teachers Use This Book?
1. Model 1: Cellular
What Is the Cellular Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Cellular Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 1: Cellular
2. Model 2: Connected
What Is the Connected Model?
What Does It look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Connected Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 2: Connected
3. Model 3: Nested
What is the Nested Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Nested Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 3: Nested
4. Model 4: Sequenced
What Is the Sequenced Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Sequenced Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 4: Sequenced
5. Model 5: Shared
What Is the Shared Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Shared Model Useful?
How to Integrated the Curricula Working With Model 5: Shared
6. Model 6: Webbed
What Is the Webbed Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Webbed Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 6: Webbed
7. Model 7: Threaded
What Is the Threaded Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Threaded Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 7: Threaded
8. Model 8: Integrated
What Is the Integrated Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Integrated Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 8: Integrated
9. Model 9: Immersed
What Is the Immersed Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Immersed Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 9: Immersed
10. Model 10: Networked
What Is the Networked Model?
What Does It Look Like?
What Does It Sound Like?
What Are the Advantages?
What Are the Disadvantages?
When Is This Networked Model Useful?
How to Integrate the Curricula Working With Model 10: Networked
Appendix A: Assessing Curriculum Integration: Units of Study
Appraising Curriculum Integration
Appraising the Integrity of the Breadth and Depth of the Curriculum Integration Unit
Sample Rubric
Assessing the Effectiveness of the Unit in
Terms of Student Achievement
General Rubric
History Rubric
Language Arts Rubric
Conclusion
References
Index
