The Parallel Curriculum Model

Core. Connections. Practice. Identity.  The four interrelated designs of the Parallel Curriculum Model, or PCM, provide students with the opportunity to learn new concepts in the context of the greater world they live in, and often challenges students to think from someone else's point of view.

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Students learn with hands-on examples that the concepts they are studying are not just theoretical. It's like having Lab for every subject.They experience for themselves how well certain methods work instead of simply memorizing the methods. As they learn, they see themselves involved in the subject and how they as individuals fit into the world.  Ultimately, they become aware of the connections between seemingly separate academic subjects.

It's like having Lab for every subject

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The Parallel Curriculum is part of the Education in Video series, available to the CHC community through Alexander Street Press. The series includes transcripts and allows bookmarking and excerpting (as shown in the linked clips here). Find this series on the library's Education subject guide.

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- Diane Arnold