These are my ideas for a new type of school curriculum. This is just an overview and the subjects, of course, would need to be taught in an age appropriate way, which I haven’t done here. Ideally, the student would pick from each subject what interested them.
11th grade
1. romantic relationships
– relationship resources
– relationship restoration
– relationship maintenance
– evidence-based marriage education
2. the healthcare system
– statistics
– nobel prize
– providers
– facilities
– physicians
– medical products, research and development
– healthcare provider employment in the united states
– spending
– regulation and oversight
– involved organizations and institutions
– certificates of need for hospitals
– licensing of providers
– quality assurance
– system effectiveness
– measures of effectiveness
– compared to other countries
– efficiency
– third party payment problem and consumer driven insurance
– overall costs
– equity
– drug efficacy and safety
– impact of drug companies
– political issues
– prescription drug prices
– debate
– reform
3. mental health
– activity therapy
– recreational exercise outside (hiking, tennis, etc.)
– journaling
– relaxation
– arts and crafts
– music therapy
– camping
– expressive therapy (self expression through creative expression)
(excited, tender, scared, angry, sad, happy)
– art
– dance
– drama
– role play
– writing
– film based
– poetry
– play
– sandplay
– dreamwork
– cognitive behavioral therapy
– thinking of problems and solutions
– writing self-statements to counter negative thoughts
– new opportunities to think positive thoughts
– visualizing the best part of the day
– learn to accept disappointment as part of life
– dialectical behavior therapy
– mindfulness: observe, describe, participate
– distress tolerance
– emotion regulation
– interpersonal effectiveness
– meditation
– lie comfortably
– close your eyes
– breathe naturally
– focus on breath
– notice your body
– return to your breath when your mind wanders
– do for 2-3 minutes
4. first aid
– airway management
– cardiopulmonary resucitation
– emergency bleeding control
5. time management
– environment conducive to effectiveness
– setting priorities
– carrying out prioritization
– reducing time on non-priorities
– incentives to modify behavior
6. sports
7. negotiation/debate
– strategies
– distributive negotiation
– integrative negotiation
– elements of negotiation
– adversary of partner
– employing an advocate
– perspective taking for integrative negotiation
– negotiation styles
– types of negotiators
– bad faith negotiation
– emotion
– affect effect
– positive affect
– negative affect
– conditions of emotion affect
– effect of partner’s emotions
– problems with laboratory studies
– team negotiation
– barriers
– tactics
– nonverbal communication
8. accounting
– financial
– management
– auditing
– information systems
– tax
9. career paths
– assessment
– information
– counseling
– education
10. teaching (education)
– formal education
– preschool
– primary
– secondary
– tertiary (higher)
– vocational
– special
– educational forms
– alternative
– indigenous
– informal learning
– self-directed learning
– open education and electronic technology
– development goals
– internationalization
– education and technology in developing countries
– private vs public funding in developing countries
– educational theory
– purpose of schools
– educational psychology
– the intelligence-education relationship
– learning modalities
– philosophy
– curriculum
– instruction
– economics of education
11. music (listening)
– pitch and melody
– harmony and chords
– rhythm
– expression
– genres
– african
– asian
– avant garde
– blues
– caribbean
– country
– easy listening
– electronic
– folk
– hip hop
– jazz
– latin
– pop
– r&b soul
– rock
12. dance (history)
– early dance
– means of social communication and bonding
– as folk celebrations
– in ceremonies and rituals
– as a method of healing
– as a method of expression
– asia
– indian classical dance
– china
– europe
– court dancing to romanticism
– ballet to contemporary dance
– last 20th and early 21st centuries
– 20th century american
13. television (creation)
14. theater (stage design)
15. film (filmmaking)
– initial story
– screenwriting
– three act structure
– the hero’s journey
– syd field’s paradigm
– the sequence approach
– imagery
– dialogue
– plot
– casting
– shooting
– basic terms
– cinematography
– lighting
– special effects
– sound recording
– editing
– editing techniques
– screening
16. fine arts (drawing)
– materials
– graphite
– charcoal
– pastels
– marker
– pen
– ink
– technique
– holding a pencil
– shading
– line weight
– checking
– is it ever finished?
– tone
– light and dark
– form and proportion
– measuring
– dots and lines
– perspective
– artistry
– negative space
– viewing art from artists
– process
– motor function
– perception
– visual memory
17. applied arts (mixed media)
18. design (graphic)
– typography
– page layout
– printmaking
– tools
– computers and the creative process
19. earth science
– earth’s interior
– electromagnetic field
– atmosphere
– methodology
– earth’s spheres
– atmosphere
– biosphere
– hydrosphere
– lithosphere
– pedosphere
– systems
20. space science
– astronomy
– space exploration
– aeronautics
21. politics (government)
– elections
– corruption
– government
– philosophies
– governments of the world
– political issues
– politics by region
– political parties
22. geography
– physical
– human
– integrated
– geomatics
– regional
23. history (scientific)
– early cultures
– africa
– ancient near east
– greco-roman world
– india
– china
– science in the middle ages
– islamic world
– europe
– impact of science in europe
– age of enlightenment
– romanticism in science
– modern science
– physics
– chemistry
– geology
– astronomy
– biology, medicine and genetics
– ecology
– political science
– linguistics
– economics
– psychology
– sociology
– anthropology
– emerging disciplines
– academic study
– theories and sociology of the history of science
– the plight of many scientific innovators
24. languages (linguistics)
– variation and universality
– lexicon
– discourse
– dialect
– structures
– relativity
– style
– approach
– generative vs. functional theories of lanaguage
– methodology
– analysis
– anthropology
– sources
– areas of research
– historical linguistics
– sociolinguistics
– developmental linguistics
– neurolinguistics
– applied
– interdisciplinary fields
– semiotics
– language documentation
– translation
– biolinguistics
– clinical
– computational
– evolutionary
– forensic
25. writing (fiction)
– character
– plot
– setting
– theme
– style
– narrator
– point of view
– tone
– suspension of disbelief
26. philosophy (western schools)
– ancient
– medieval
– modern
– contemporary approaches
– analytic
– continental
– german idealism
– phenomenology
– existentialism
– pragmatism
– thomism
– marxism
– western philosophical subdisciplines
– philosophy contrasted with other disciplines
– natural science
– theology and religious studies
– mathematics
