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    This document discusses integrated curriculum, which involves making connections across disciplines and real life. It defines integrated curriculum as broadly exploring knowledge in related subjects about the environment. The principles are that learning builds on experience in open-ended ways, and that there are multiple approaches to integration, including making connections and seeing purpose. Approaches include multidisciplinary around a theme, intradisciplinary within subjects, interdisciplinary around common learnings, and transdisciplinary around student questions. Benefits are focusing on skills and content with deeper understanding through relevant experiences and connections between disciplines.

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    This document discusses integrated curriculum, which involves making connections across disciplines and real life. It defines integrated curriculum as broadly exploring knowledge in related subjects about the environment. The principles are that learning builds on experience in open-ended ways, and that there are multiple approaches to integration, including making connections and seeing purpose. Approaches include multidisciplinary around a theme, intradisciplinary within subjects, interdisciplinary around common learnings, and transdisciplinary around student questions. Benefits are focusing on skills and content with deeper understanding through relevant experiences and connections between disciplines.

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    This document discusses integrated curriculum, which involves making connections across disciplines and real life. It defines integrated curriculum as broadly exploring knowledge in related subjects about the environment. The principles are that learning builds on experience in open-ended ways, and that there are multiple approaches to integration, including making connections and seeing purpose. Approaches include multidisciplinary around a theme, intradisciplinary within subjects, interdisciplinary around common learnings, and transdisciplinary around student questions. Benefits are focusing on skills and content with deeper understanding through relevant experiences and connections between disciplines.

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    INTEGRATED

    CURRICULUM
    INTEGRATED
    CURRICULUM
    “ An integrated study is one in which
    children broadly explore knowledge in
    various subjects related to certain
    aspects of their environment”
    Defining Integrated Curriculum
     In its simplest conception, it is about making
    connections.
     across disciplines
     across sub disciplines
     real life
     Unification of all subjects and experiences
    Principles of Curriculum Integration
     Learning, building, extends and expands
    student’s personal knowledge and experiences
     Open-ended and provide for a range of
    learning style
     Range of possible approaches to curriculum
    integration
     Making connections and seeing real purpose
    for their learning
    Why Integrated Curriculum important?
     An integrated curriculum allows children to
    pursue learning in a holistic way, without the
    restrictions often imposed by subject
    boundaries. In early childhood programs, it
    focuses upon the inter-relatedness of all
    curricular areas in helping children acquire
    basic learning tools.
    Approaches of integrated
    curriculum

     Multidisciplinary
     Intradisciplinary
     Interdisciplinary
     Transdisciplinary
    Multidisciplinary
     Multidisciplinary approach focuses
    primarily on the disciplines.
    Teachers who use this approach
    organize standards from the
    disciplines around
     In secondary schools, a common theme is often
    studied in various subject-based classrooms.

    Example:
    Teachers of all subject areas at High School and
    have agreed to integrate the public health issue of
    physical activity into their lesson plans (Eckman,
    2000).
    The Multidisciplinary Approach
    Intradisciplinary Approach
     When teachers integrate the sub disciplines
    within a subject area, they are using an
    intradisciplinary approach.

    Example:
     Integrating reading, writing and oral

    communication in language arts.


     Integrated science integrates the perspectives

    of subdisciplines such as biology, chemistry,


    physics and earth/space science.
     In math class students learned graphing,
    plotting, percentages and ratios as they pertain
    to collecting health data. Sociology and
    Psychology students were to implement and
    test planned intervention.
    Interdisciplinary Approach
     In this approach to integration, teachers
    organize the curriculum around common
    learnings across disciplines. They chunk
    together the common learnings embedded in
    the disciplines to emphasize interdisciplinary
    skills and concepts.
     The disciplines are identifiable, but they
    assume less importance than in the
    multidisciplinary approach.
    Interdisciplinary approach
    Example:
    The children in Florida making wind and rain
    machine while learning language skills are
    experiencing interdisciplinary approach. They are
    learning the interdisciplinary skills of
    communication.
    Transdisciplinary Integration
     It involves organizing the curriculum around student
    questions, interests and concerns. This is done
    through either project based learning(, where
    students get involved in a local problem or
    negotiating the curriculum, where the basis for
    curriculum is formed around the interests and
    questions of the students.
    Project-based learning is a student-centered pedagogy
    that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it
    is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge
    trough active exploration or real-worlds challenges and
    problems
     Transdisciplinary integration is similar to
    interdisciplinary integration because standards
    from more than one discipline are addressed.
    Benefits of Teaching with the Integrated
    Curriculum
     Focuses on basic skills, content and higher-
    level thinking
     Provides deeper understanding of content
     Encourages active participation in relevant
    real-life experiences
     Provides connections among various curricular
    disciplines
     Accommodates a variety of learning styles,
    theories and multiple intelligences
    THANK YOU!

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