Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul: Redefining Curriculum and Instruction

By H. Lynn Erickson

Book Overview

A new look at contemporary curriculum design H. Lynn Erickson revisits her best-selling text to provide educators with an updated perspective of current trends in curriculum and instruction. In this thoughtful "how to" of curriculum design, educators will find practical structures and specific classroom examples of effective curriculum strategies. Erickson′s blueprint for designing curriculum and instruction offer a pathway from the facts to the conceptual level of understanding - where knowledge transfers and thinking becomes integrated.

Key issues explored:

Making change in a changing world Concept-based curriculum State academic standards and local curriculum design Designing interdisciplinary, integrated curricula Concept-based units -- samples and questions Assessing and reporting student progress Teaching concept-based in the classroom

Stirring the head, heart and soul: creating a love of learning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080396885X
• ISBN13: 9780803968851
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Corwin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Every teacher should read this book

If you are serious about teaching for deep understanding this is perhaps the most important book you could ever read. It has influenced my teaching more than any other book I have ever read. Lynn Erickson explains how to place concepts in the centre of your lesson planning in a way which ensures that you will be planning experiences for your students that have the highest probability of helping them deepen their conceptual understanding of the world around them in a way that lends itself to generalizing and conditionalizing knowledge. Knowledge learned in this way is more likely to be transferable, and what more noble goal for teachers in the 21st century could there be than transfer. The speed of technological change and the exponential growth of information mean that our students are going to face a world that we cannot even begin to imagine. Teaching facts for their own sake should have ended years ago, but sadly is still common in our schools. Lynn Erickson is a veritable goddess when it comes to helping teachers move forward in learning to teach the thinking skills and understandings necessary for the 21st Century. If you read one book about creating curriculum for your students, make it this one.