Upgrade Your Curriculum: Chapter 5 Considerations

1. Collaboration and Communication

1.1. Giving students a chance to, "work together to solve the task," while still being "kind and respectful to one another" is another way to enhance and upgrade the curriculum, because it gives encouragement and emphasis on Collaboration and Communication

1.2. Hale gave an example of Collaboration and Communication in order to illustrate its effective execution. With this tool, it gives teachers a chance to allow students to talk and immediately receive feedback, as well as communicate and work through situations.

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3. Technology To Support Your Curriculum

3.1. Janet Hale gave examples and methods to integrate technology into the lesson in or der to advance the curriculum

3.2. According to Boni Hamilton, author of Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Tools for Every Learner, "The effective use of instructional technology encourages active participation by students, which keeps them involved and places much of the learning load on them...we now know that our willingness to use these tools results in students’ deeper under-standing and greater excitement about learning."

4. Higher-Order Thinking/Critical Thinking

4.1. Higher-order thinking and critical thinking allow the student to process and examine situations using complex thinking and "expand horizons" in terms of how to think and how to carry out action after thinking.

4.2. Hale gives examples of how to allow students to utilize Higher-Order Thinking and Critical Thinking in order to come a solution (or a system of solutions) about the situations. When students feel freedom to utilize Higher Order Thinking and Critical Thinking, it creates a safe classroom environment for students to know they can take an active role in their own learning.