Heidi Hayes Jacobs' Curriculum 21 is one of the best books I've read in a loooong time, including personal reading - it actually fed my teacher-soul. After reading the foreword and introduction, I told my principal she needed to read it, and that I was going to be marking up this school copy, so I owed someone the cost of the book.
Practical, passionate, and supported by research and a lifetime of experience, Jacobs covers it all. The problem/s, and step by step solutions for recreating curriculum beginning with the end in mind: assessment. A look at content areas and strategies for reframing, rethinking, and integrating.
There was almost an entire chapter on my favorite topic, metacognition. I was not surprised to find further reference to Habits of Mind, which I'd heard about from a faculty report back on this year's brain conference, 5 Habits of Mind, which I quickly began to scout around for.
This time, however, Heidi speaks to 16 of them, developed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, which leads into to my next post.
Please help yourself to my notes on Curriculum 21. I just had to write some of it down, to somehow own it more. I invite and encourage your comments on this!
Practical, passionate, and supported by research and a lifetime of experience, Jacobs covers it all. The problem/s, and step by step solutions for recreating curriculum beginning with the end in mind: assessment. A look at content areas and strategies for reframing, rethinking, and integrating.
There was almost an entire chapter on my favorite topic, metacognition. I was not surprised to find further reference to Habits of Mind, which I'd heard about from a faculty report back on this year's brain conference, 5 Habits of Mind, which I quickly began to scout around for.
This time, however, Heidi speaks to 16 of them, developed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, which leads into to my next post.
Please help yourself to my notes on Curriculum 21. I just had to write some of it down, to somehow own it more. I invite and encourage your comments on this!