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WHAT IS IT?
- Pursue any topic or issue and opportunities arise to address expectations across multiple subjects. Following and using these learning opportunities is the essence of integrated learning.
- The learning experience addresses and assesses content and skill expectations from two or more subjects.
- At lower levels of integration distinct subjects are readily identifiable. In fully integrated investigations or projects, subject boundaries are transcended and no longer readily identifiable.
WHY USE IT?
- Integrated learning makes addressing curriculum manageable by offering a means of addressing many subject expectations in a meaningful way.
- It contributes to a deeper understanding of topics and issues, and the interrelationships inherent in complex, real-world systems.
- It provides opportunities to differentiate instruction. The inclusion of multiple disciplines provides students with the opportunity to engage their particular interests or abilities.
- Integrated learning enables more authentic assessment.
TIPS FOR TEACHERS
- Most subject areas provide interesting topics and teachable moments to address literacy & numeracy.
- Team-teaching allows colleagues to break down artificial subject barriers and present students with a more authentic experience of how knowledge is built and problems are solved.
- Better still, a thematic teaching approach can unite curriculum and colleagues around a single topic and in doing so help students gain deeper understanding.
- Action projects launched from just about any subject or content area provide excellent opportunities to incorporate knowledge and skills from across the curriculum.
- Learning outcomes derived from field trips within the school neighbourhood or beyond can easily include those associated with journal writing, drawing & photography, observing & recording, and hypothesis testing to name a few.
- Children’s literature can be an excellent vehicle for integrating subjects and curriculum. See the R4R Children's Literature Catalogue.
