What would be the fun of basketball, hockey, or soccer without a goal? Goals give kids something to "shoot for." Curriculum describes these goals. (You can check out an Overview of Sixth Grade Reading and Language Arts which appeared in the first copy of ClassWorks).
Integrated Skills
In addition to its specific content, every academic discipline incorporates a wide spectrum of skills which can be applied beyond the confines of the discipline itself. Stated simply, every subject area offers the opportunity for the teaching of thinking, decision making, problem solving, communication, psychomotor and interpersonal relations skills.
These skills are further outlined in the chart below.
Skills Integrated Across the Disciplines
Skills
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Student Behaviors
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thinking skills
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observing, classifying, predicting, inferring, hypothesizing, interpreting
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decision-making skills
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recognizing the need for a decision, identifying alternatives, analyzing positive and negative alternatives, examining values, making decisions
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problem-solving skills
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identifying, defining, information gathering, organizing, generating alternatives, developing plans, implementing plans, evaluating outcomes
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communications skills
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speaking, writing, listening, discussing
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psychomotor skills
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manipulating equipment, eye-hand coordination, kinesthetic sense
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interpersonal skills
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cooperating, consensus building, developing group discussion skills, improving leadership skills
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