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    Horizontal integration combines subject areas around a common theme to provide real-world connections for students. It focuses on basic skills, content, and higher-level thinking while encouraging lifelong learning and collaboration. The key aspects are selecting a theme, engaging students through materials, grouping students, expanding the theme, and assessing growth. Horizontal integration makes relationships between ideas obvious and helps students see purpose in their learning through authentic communication and respect among peers.

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    Horizontal integration combines subject areas around a common theme to provide real-world connections for students. It focuses on basic skills, content, and higher-level thinking while encouraging lifelong learning and collaboration. The key aspects are selecting a theme, engaging students through materials, grouping students, expanding the theme, and assessing growth. Horizontal integration makes relationships between ideas obvious and helps students see purpose in their learning through authentic communication and respect among peers.

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    Horizontal integration combines subject areas around a common theme to provide real-world connections for students. It focuses on basic skills, content, and higher-level thinking while encouraging lifelong learning and collaboration. The key aspects are selecting a theme, engaging students through materials, grouping students, expanding the theme, and assessing growth. Horizontal integration makes relationships between ideas obvious and helps students see purpose in their learning through authentic communication and respect among peers.

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    Horizontal Integration

    of Subject Area
    Competencies
    What is Integration?
    -Combine/combination
    - Problem, concerns, real to the students and in the community
    -Students and teachers work together to select the specific topic of
    interest to them and together they plan how, when, where, and why
    they pursue it.
    Program which is Genuinely Interactive
    - based on topic substance and significance
    -Develop desire for the learning process
    - Develop skills and knowledge that are real to the student
    - Build on and extend knowledge and experience
    Horizontal Integration

    - is one in which children broadly explore knowledge in


    various subjects related to certain aspects of their
    environment.
    - different subject area , different practice of skills but
    there’s only one theme.
    Components of Horizontal Integration
    - Focuses on basic skills , content and higher level thinking
    - Encourage life long learning
    - Provides connections among various curricular disciplines.
    Characteristic of a Horizontal Integration
    - student directed real-world application
    - researched based
    - usage of multiple resources
    - social skills improved
    - collaboration
    -Problem-answer
    -find a authentic literature on a topic
    Steps of Horizontal Integration
    - selecting a theme
    - collecting texts and other materials engaging students
    - grouping students
    - expanding the theme
    - assessing student growth
    Why is Horizontal Integration Important
    -students see relationships among ideas and concepts as they plan and
    experience the theme-based inquiry.
    - Relationships between in and out of school tpics become obvious to
    students
    - Communication process become authentic as students engage in
    thematically based learning activities
    - respect and cooperation among peers are expanded through interaction
    - the teacher assumes the role of facilitator rather than information dispenser.
    Principles of Horizontal Integration
    - range of possible approaches to curriculum integration
    - making connection and seeing real purpose for their learning
    - based in topics of substance and significance
    - learning experiences develop big ideas that excite and challenge the
    imagination.
    - actively involved in negotiating the the content and direction of their
    learning.
    -knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes are all integrated.
    Approaches of Horizontal Integration

    • Interdisciplinary
    -focus on study was survival in a changing world.
    All subject areas were involved in the unit,
    including a foreign language, agriculture, and life
    management.
    •Multidisciplinary Integration
    - Approach that has two or more subject areas
    are organized around the same theme or topic
    •Transdisciplinary Integration

    -approach to integration teachers organize curriculum


    around student questions and concerns. Students develop
    life skills as they apply interdisciplinary and disciplinary
    skills in a real life context.
    -two routes lead to transdisciplinary integration: project-
    based learning and negotiating the curriculum

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