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What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparing your students for 2015 or 2020? Are you even preparing them for today? With those provocative questions, author and educator Heidi Hayes Jacobs launches a powerful case for overhauling, updating, and injecting life into the K-12 curriculum.
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In the first four chapters of this book, editor Jacobs, a curriculum consultant who teaches at Columbia University's Teachers College, offers short-term and long-term recommendations for updating and upgrading the K-12 curriculum and specific content areas, focusing on four areas that need to be changed: schedules, the grouping patterns of learners, the configurations of professional personnel, and the use of physical and virtual space. The rest of the book's nine chapters look at socio-technology trends impacting learning and teaching, such as digital portfolios and sustainability education. Contributors include school principals, a journalist who develops curriculum tools for teaching media literacy, and developers of educational technology. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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