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Integrative Curriculum
A presentation proposing an integrative curriculum design
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Introduction
Introduction
An integrated curriculum allows students to learn in a holistic way, diminishing boundaries between content areas as well as school and community.
The integrated curriculum emphasizes the importance of collaboration and team work amongst disciplines and cultures.
The integrated curriculum promotes learning experiences which are purposeful theme based projects and investigative - inquiry learning experiences.
Goals and Objectives
Goals and objectives
Main ideas to be understood by students:
• Each student is unique and contributes in his/her own way to a classroom and community.
• Student’s cultural backgrounds are important to their unique character.
• A classroom community consists of people working together and respecting the needs of all members.
• People rely on each other and perform certain jobs.
• The environment affects how people live and work.
Goals and objectives cont.
• When learning is meaningful the learner is able to transfer the learning to new setting. The type of learning that occurs through integration also cultivates the development of lifelong skills such as individualization, self-control, organization, problem solving, discorse and self-assessment.
• Design a plan which will provide the scope and depth necessary to ensure a valuable educational experience for all students. Provide direction and balance. The curriculum will develop the children’s strengths and interest while adhering to state standards and district benchmarks.
Curricular Mapping
Curricular mapping
Curriculum mapping is the process indexing or diagraming a curriculum to identify and address academic gaps, redundancies, and misalignments for purposes of improving the overall coherence of a course of study and, by extension, its effectiveness. (Great schools partnership, 2013)
Quick read
Increases collaboration amongst staff
Benefits
Positive impact on teacher parent communications
Maps allow for individualization and reinforces reflections for stronger lesson plans
Stakeholders
Students
Staff
Parents
Community
Stakeholders
How can we work together?
- What materials are available?
- What community facilities are available for real world experiences?
- What features of the natural environment could facilitate learning?
- What cultures are represented in the community?
- What organizations could connect with our class, (multicultural societies, ethnic organizations, fine arts groups, service clubs, senior citizens, and elderly care facilities)?
Teachers can demonstrate the value of integration by:
o Holding informational meetings
o Providing materials to help explain what is taking place in the classroom, school and community
o Helping students to reflect and articulate what they have learned
LET'S DIG DEEPER Teachers
• Teachers can show parents that in an integrated classroom there is an underlying structure which combines an understanding of how children learn.
- Illustrate the district or state standards and benchmarks with the goals and curriculum areas of the program
- knowledge of children in general and child development
Conclusion
Conclusion
• Data collection techniques
• In making a long-range plan for assessment and evaluation, the teacher needs to establish a system which facilitates:
Each child’s learning being considered on a regular basis
Information being collected on all goal and curriculum areas
• Information being collected on state or district standards and benchmarks Information being recorded and stored
- Children being involved in the process
- Sharing and transferring information
- A long-range plan for assessment and evaluation also needs to include ongoing questioning of how the information gained through interaction with children can be used to enhance, modify, and adapt further assessment, the curriculum, and the environment.
I propose an integrated curriculum that encmpasses an interdisciplinary structure. Using a thematic design, students will experience indepth lessons that consist of multiple opportunities to grapple with concepts across content areas.
References
Topic
Great schools partnership. (2013, November 18). Curriculum Mapping Definition. Retrieved from https://www.edglossary.org/curriculum-mapping/
The Primary Program: Growing and Learning in the Heartland Integrated Curriculum. (2017). Integrated Curriculum in the Primary Program [Brochure]. Author. Retrieved from https://www.education.ne.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IC.pdf