The purpose of this case study is to develop interdisciplinary integrated curriculum unit based on Know/Do/Be Model by Drake. Know/Do/Be Model is consisted of three questions as follows: ① What is most important for students to know? ② What is most important for students to be able to do? ③ What kind of person do we want students to be? These questions make powerful Know-Do-Be bridge.
KNOW includes facts, topics, concepts, and generalizations or enduring understandings. The DO includes cross-curricular, broad-based skills such as communication, and other higher-order skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The BE includes the attitudes, beliefs, and actions that we expect students to demonstrate. BE is the smallest category and the most controversial.
This study analyze the 2007 national curriculums of all subjects of the 4th grade in pupil school by applying the Drake's Know/Do/Be Model and develop the integrated curriculum unit which theme is ‘life with together: harmony’. The procedures of design on thematic unit are follows; scanning and cluster standards horizontally to select one or two broad-based, choose an age-appropriate and relevant topic or theme, create a web to identify potential cluster of standards, construct the KNOW/DO/BE bridge, design a integrated unit, and create lesson plan.
In conclusion, in analyzing national curriculum it was founded that BE is nearly absent and KNOW, DO is consisted of lower-level contents. The interdisciplinary integrated unit which is taken complementary was effective to balance between them and to facilitate holistic growth.