Citizens of the 21st Century
A5 Citizens of the 21st Century
Written (Group) Assignment
Course Curriculum Guide
Due: 7/3/06
Name
We have just received a grant to design a new required course for all seniors at Mountain High School. You have been chose to be a part of a faculty interdisciplinary team to create this innovative curriculum. It is a full year course (16 weeks block scheduling) that is required for graduation. Based on the national and local calls for school curriculum to be more relevant to the “real world,” this course is designed to give students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for them to be productive citizens in the new millennium.
Your committee’s charge is to determine what you believe these knowledge, skills, and dispositions should be and then design a course that will give students practical, useful, engaging, interesting ways to practice and develop them. There are four elements/components that have been mandated by the district/community that must be present in this course:
1. A service-learning component
2. Future trends in educational methodologies
3. Senior Projects/Exhibitions must be required of every student by the end of the year.
4. A theme that integrates the different content areas.
Each course guide will include:
• Rationale
• Audience Description
• Course Description
• Course Objectives
• Scope and Sequence Matrix
• Service Learning Component
• Future Trends Reflected
• Senior Project / Exhibition
Citizens of the 21st Century
Course Curriculum Guide: Description and Evaluation Rubric
Rationale (10 points)
This answers the question-Why?
Justification for taking this course
Benefit to the student
Benefit to the community
Audience Description (10 points)
Classroom Profile
High School Demographics
Community Profile
Course Description (20 points)
Fully developed description
Everything I need to know about this course:
Elements/components
Basic Design
Integration of units, activities, etc.
Integration of future trends
Integration of service learning
Scope and Sequence Matrix (10 points)
Content to be covered (Units, subtopics, etc.)
Sequence/timeline/order of units, etc.
Objectives that will be met
Course Objectives (10 points)
General & relatively content-free
Specific Learning objectives that help explain the General Learning objectives
All three domains
Variety of levels
Domain and level indicated correctly
Future Trends reflected (10 points)
Service Learning component (10 points)
Detailed description
Design for and evaluation of
Senior Project/ Exhibition (10 points)
Detailed description
Professional Appearance (10 points)
Total points= 100
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