Book Description

25 individual strategies, currently used worldwide, provide cutting edge information and time-tested procedures for promoting educational development in today's global age. This highly respected book takes curriculum development to a new level by presenting it as a tool for promoting our nation's future. Author Jon Wiles views the Common Core movement as America's response to a rapidly changing world, and compares our efforts with those of other nations. Getting it right, he states, will determine the national destiny of most countries. The book identifies 25 individual strategies, currently used worldwide, for promoting educational development--strategies that schools, districts, states, and nations will employ in transforming their systems for the new global age. While maintaining its established, well-known focus on historical and philosophical aspects of curriculum development, this edition also includes updated chapters on technology, the Common Core movement, and the curriculum activities of the world's leading nations, along with practical applications of these historic and novel principles of curriculum work. This book provides the ideal teaching and learning experience. Here's how: Encourages diversity in curriculum goal setting. Provides features and activities for promoting self-assessment and helping to ensure understanding. Emphasises a global approach and a worldview of curriculum development.