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.
12th grade
1. personal finance
– financial position
– adequate protection
– tax planning
– investment and accumulation goals
– retirement planning
– estate planning
2. home repair
– worn
– damaged
– maintenance
– good operations
– remediation of environmental problems
3. car repair
– oil change
– fluids
– tires
– safety procedures
4. credit
– credit cards
– credit management
– credit scoring
– interest rates
– bank credit
– commerce
– consumer credit
– investment credit
– real estate
5. finding a job
– resume
– networking
– referrals
– job boards and career websites
– job fairs
– company websites
– cold calling
– recruitment agencies
– temping and internships
– interview
6. physical health
– diet
– exercise
– sleep
– disease
7. sports
8. business
– forms of ownership
– classifications
– management
– organization and government regulation
9. accounting
– financial
– management
– auditing
– information systems
– tax
10. career paths
– assessment
– information
– counseling
– education
11. leadership/management
– planning
– organizing
– coordinating
– commanding
– controlling
– interpersonal
– informational
– decision
12. 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
13. music (playing)
– percussion
– wind instruments
– stringed instruments
– electronic instruments
14. dance (performance)
– concert dance
– latin/rhythm
– swing
– traditional jazz
– ballroom
– freestyle
– hip hop
– disco
15. fine arts (painting)
– different media (oil, acrylic, etc.)
– symbolic
– still life
– body painting
– figure painting
– illustration
– landscape
– portrait
– cityscape
16. applied arts (printmaking)
– woodcut
– engraving
– etching
– screenprinting
– digital
17. design (user experience)
– elements
– visual design
– information architecture
– interaction design
– usability
– human-computer interactiono
– general process
– UX deliverables
– designers\
– graphic designers
– visual designers
– interaction
– testing
– benefits
18. medicine
– clinical practice
– institutions
– delivery
– branches
– basic sciences
– specialties
– interdisciplinary fields
– education and legal controls
– medical ethics
– traditional medicine
19. mathematics
– quantity
– structure
– space
– change
– foundations and philosophy
– logic
– discrete
– applied
20. psychology
– schools of thought
– biological
– behavioral
– cognitive
– social
– existential-humanist
– themes
– personality
– unconscious mind
– motivation
– development
– genes and environment
– applications
– mental testing
– mental health care
– education
– work
– military and intelligence
– health, well-being, and social change
– research methods
– controlled experiments
– statistical inference
– technological assays
– computer simulation
– animal studies
– qualitative and descriptive research
– contemporary issues
– ethics
– humans
– other animals
21. history (world)
– prehistory
– early humans
– rise of civilization
– ancient history
– timeline
– cradles of civilization
– axial age
– regional empires
– declines, falls, and resurgence
– post-classical
– western asia and north africa
– europe
– sub-saharan africa
– south asia
– east asia
– central asia
– southeast asia
– oceania
– the americas
– modern
– early modern period
– late modern period
– contemporary history
22. languages (english)
– phonology
– consonants
– vowels
– phonotactics
– stress, rhythm and intonation
– regional variation
– grammar
– nouns and noun phrases
– verbs and verb tense
– syntax
– vocabulary
– word formation processes
– word origins
– english loanwords and calques in other languages
23. writing (non-fiction)
– expository (explaining or informing the reader about a certain topic)
– argumentative
– background
– thesis
– 3 claims
– evidence for each claim
– opposing views (2)
– refutation of 2 opposing views
– conclusion
– opinion
– both sides of argument
– opinions
– reasons for opinions
– examples to support reasons
– conclusions
– essay
– introductory
– body
– transitions
– conclusion
– biography
– research
– reading works already written about the subject
– interviews
– visit places significant to the subject’s life
– explore what interested, influenced and inspired the subject
– study the time and place of the subject’s life
– analyzing the subject’s life
– look for patterns
– thesis statement
– decide how to recount the person’s life
– narrative
– write
– drafts
– get someone to read it
– proofread
– title
– sources
– publish
– memoir
– memories
– historical
– outline
– scientific
24. philosophy (ethics)
– meta-ethics
– normative ethics
– virtue ethics
– hedonism
– state consequentialism
– consequentialism/teleology
– deontology
– pragmatic ethics
– role ethics
– anarchist ethics
– postmodern ethics
– applied
– specific questions
– particular fields of application
– bioethics
– business
– machine
– military
– political
– public sector
– publication
– relational
– moral
– evolutionary ethics
– descriptive
