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.
7th grade
1. study skills
– buzan mind maps
– rehearsal and rote learning
– reading and listening
– flashcard training
– keywords
– visual imagery
– acronyms and mnemonics
– exam strategies
– spacing
– organization and lifestyle changes
– study environment
2. social skills
– coordination
– mentoring
– negotiation
– persuasion
– service orientation
– social perceptiveness
3. survival skills
– shelter
– fire
– water
– food
– navigation
– mental preparedness
– important survival items
– common myths
4. 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
5. first aid
– airway management
– cardiopulmonary resucitation
– emergency bleeding control
6. time management
– environment conducive to effectiveness
– setting priorities
– carrying out prioritization
– reducing time on non-priorities
– incentives to modify behavior
7. sports
8. music (recording)
9. dance (choreography)
– ballet
– contemporary
– jazz
– hip hop
– folk
– techno
– k pop
– religious
10. 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
11. applied arts (mixed media)
13. mathematics
– quantity
– structure
– space
– change
– foundations and philosophy
– logic
– discrete
– applied
14. 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
15. geography
– physical
– human
– integrated
– geomatics
– regional
16. history (modern)
– modern era
– early modern period
– asia
– europe
– north america
– late modern period
– timeline
– industrial revolutions
– european dominance and the 19th century
– united states
– united states
– science and philosophy
– european decline and the 20th century
17. 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
18. writing (journalism)
19. philosophy (logic)
– concepts
– logical form
– semantics
– inference
– logical systems
– logic and rationality
– rival conceptions
– types
– syllogistic logic
– propositional logic
– predicate logic
– modal logic
– informal reasoning and dialectic
– mathematical
– philosophical
– computational
– non-classical
– controversies
– “is logic empirical?”
– implication: strict or material
– tolerating the impossible
– rejection of logical truth
